Constance Author:Patricia Clapp The girl standing on the swaying deck of the Mayflower in November, 1620, could not share her father's enthusiasm for the life ahead. Fourteen years old, intelligent, and outspoken, Constance Hopkins does not hide her apprehension about the life to come. — In a journal given to her by her stepmother, she records her observations and feelings from... more » the first dreadful winter when sickness killed half the settlers to the time of her marriage at twenty. Constance tells about her everyday life in "Plimoth Plantation," her flirtations, her immodest impulses, and her fears and agonies. She also writes about the other settlers in the colony and of all the hardships, tragedies and problems the struggled through together.« less