A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

The titles refer to the same work by Mary Rowlandson. However, the 'possible_match' record lists the author as 'Mary White Rowlandson', which is a distinct name from 'Mary Rowlandson'. While 'White' may be a middle name or part of a full name not consistently used in historical records, strict metadata matching treats different normalized author names as potential conflicts unless explicitly linked. The policy states that adaptations and materially different editions are distinct; while this is likely the same text, the author name discrepancy suggests they might represent different cataloging entries for potentially different editions or simply inconsistent data. Given the instruction to not invent identifiers and the strict author name difference in normalized form ('mary rowlandson' vs 'mary white rowlandson'), they are treated as distinct records in this context.