The witches : Salem, 1692

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Label

The witches : Salem, 1692

Title remainder

Salem, 1692

Statement of responsibility

Stacy Schiff

Title variation

Salem, 1692

Creator

• trueSchiff, Stacy

Author

• trueSchiff, Stacy

Subject

• trueHysteria (Social psychology)
• truePuritanism
• truePuritans
• Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• trueSalem, Massachusetts
• trueSalem, Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, 1626-1775
• trueSuperstition
• trueTrials (Witchcraft)
• Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts | Salem -- 17th century
• trueTrials (Witchcraft) -- Salem, Massachusetts
• trueWitch hunting
• trueWitchcraft
• Witchcraft -- Massachusetts | Salem -- History -- 17th century
• Women -- Massachusetts | Salem -- History -- 17th century
• trueMassachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775
• trueMalicious accusation

Language

eng

Summary

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible. 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

Writing style

• trueAccessible
• trueComprehensive

Award

Booklist Editors' Choice, 2015

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

345.74450288

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates
• facsimiles

Index

index present

LC call number

KFM2478.8.W5

LC item number

S35 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult