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      Lois the Witch

      by Elizabeth Gaskell / Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
      Published
      Jan 1861
      Main Genre
      Christian Christian
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      88
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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 ingénue: 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.

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      General Fiction

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      Christian Gothic

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      Witch / Warlock / Mage / Wizard

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