The Afflicted Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Afflicted Girls write by Nicole Cooley. This book was released on 2004-04-01. The Afflicted Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twenty individuals were executed and more than 150 imprisoned. The historical body of evidence that remains from the Salem witch trials of 1692 touched the hands, mind, and imagination of poet Nicole Cooley, compelling her to seek entry to an inaccessible past of lies. The Afflicted Girls, so named after the young women who claimed to be victims of witchcraft, spans the centuries to give voice to those both audible and silent on history’s pages—accusers and accused of several kinds: wife and husband, servant and master, congregant and minister, and, not least, bewitched and witch. Piercing, enchanting, Cooley’s poems form a remarkable narrative, one that displays the enormous cultural power the Salem witch trials retain in twenty-first-century America.
The Afflicted Girls
The Afflicted Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Afflicted Girls write by Suzy Witten. This book was released on 2009-10-31. The Afflicted Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Witten presents a startling new theory of the Salem Village witch-hunts, which is certain to put this 300-year-old unsettled mystery to rest. Part parable, part star-crossed romance, and part supernatural venture, this is an intuitive human--and inhuman--history spun with a modern twist.
Six Women of Salem
Six Women of Salem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six Women of Salem write by Marilynne K. Roach. This book was released on 2013-09-03. Six Women of Salem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been "afflicted," 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbors, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders. All this adds up to what the Rev. Cotton Mather called "a desolation of names." The individuals involved are too often reduced to stock characters and stereotypes when accuracy is sacrificed to indignation. And although the flood of names and detail in the history of an extraordinary event like the Salem witch trials can swamp the individual lives involved, individuals still deserve to be remembered and, in remembering specific lives, modern readers can benefit from such historical intimacy. By examining the lives of six specific women, Marilynne Roach shows readers what it was like to be present throughout this horrific time and how it was impossible to live through it unchanged.
The Witches
The Witches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Witches write by Stacy Schiff. This book was released on 2015-10-27. The Witches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
The Afflicted Girls
The Afflicted Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Afflicted Girls write by . This book was released on 2009. The Afflicted Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
