| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
526 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 525-526). |
| Summary |
Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when this precocious child witnesses the horrifying death of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly executed as a sorceress, she makes it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. A self-educated "natural philosopher," Jennet is inspired in her quest by a single sentence in a cryptic letter from Isaac Newton: "It so happens that in the Investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjoy no essential Existence." Armed with nothing but the power of reason and her memory of Isobel's love, Jennet cannot rest until she has put the last witchfinder out of business.--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Young women -- Fiction.
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Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688 -- Fiction.
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
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Executions and executioners -- Fiction.
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Trials (Witchcraft) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
0060821795 (acid-free paper) |
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9780060821791 (acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780060821791 (hardcover : alk. paper) 52595 |
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NLGGC 277105625 |
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YDXCP 2242871 |
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