A fter Lydia Wydell sauntered into Sabbath services, stripped off her clothes, and stood brazenly naked before the whole, shocked congregation, surely no one present that Sunday in Newbury in 1663 ever forgot her assault on their Puritan ways. But for all the uproar, Wydell's cheeky story was still lost to history - that is, until Diane Rapaport dug it up.
Wydell's tale is now the title piece in Rapaport's entertaining and informative new book, "The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England." Call it Court TV meets the History Channel - in print.
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