Ester Sowernam, English author whose pen name comes from Esther in the Old Testament, who defended her people against Haman. Sowernam is also the antithesis of Joseph Swetnam’s last name (sweet/sour). She was the second of three women to respond to Swetnam’s The Arraignment of Women in her pamphlet, Ester Hath Hanged Haman; or An Answer to a Lewd Pamphlet, Entitled The Arraignment of Women in response to The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward and Unconstant Men, and Husbands (1617).