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A Young English Orphan Arrives In America To Be Greeted By An Atmosphere Of Shadowy Terror And A Wave Of Puritan Suspicion. She Settles With Her Uncle's Family In Salem, Massachusetts, On The Eve Of The World's Most Notorious Witch Hunt. Lois Barclay Is A Typical Ingenue: A Well Of Affection And Understanding Waiting To Be Tapped. The New England She Experiences, However, Is Prey To A Host Of Fears - Of Indians, Of Witches, Of The Evil One Himself. Lois Finds All Her Attempts At Friendship Misunderstood, Her Anglican Upbringing A Source Of Mistrust And Censure, And Her Very Attractiveness A Potential Curse. In This Moving Novella, Gaskell Provides A Fictionalised Account Of One Of The Victims Of The Salem Witch Trials Of 1692, Using It To Highlight The Very Human Dangers Of Religious Bigotry And Sexual Repression.--jacket. Elizabeth Gaskell. Previous Ed.: London: Methuen, 1960. Foreword By Jenny Uglow.

Who reads Lois the Witch (Hesperus Classics)?

Author

Elizabeth Gaskell; Jenny Uglow

Publisher

Hesperus Press Limited

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781843910497

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror

Rating

3.63 / 5 (339 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13