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Woven through Connie’s stories are excerpts from Deliverance Dane’s life and that of her daughter, Mercy. We first meet Deliverance in the prologue in 1681 where she has been called to the bedside of a dying five-year-old girl. Deliverance is unable to save her, and this is the origin of all her troubles.
This discovery launches Connie on a quest-to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.As the pieces of Deliverance's harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem's dark past then she ...
19 de ago. de 2021 · Deliverance had married into the Dane family and had become loved within her husband's family. Her husband, Nathaniel Dane, was the son of Reverend Francis Dane, who had been a critic of the trials. Due to his criticism of the trials, it should not come as a shock that his daughters and daughter-in-law were among the accused of witchcraft.
Katherine Howe’s first novel, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, follows Harvard graduate student Connie, who fatefully exhumes a mystery that potentially carries implications on both the present and historical understanding of the famous Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials. The prologue opens with a scene from the distant past. A woman attempts to cure a sickly child by referring to a set ...
ABOUT KATHERINE. Katherine Howe is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian and novelist. She is the author of several novels for adults and young adults, has edited two volumes of primary sources for Penguin Classics, and is the co-author with Anderson Cooper of the #1 New York Times bestselling books VANDERBILT and ASTOR.
3 de jul. de 2019 · Abigail Dane Faulkner Facts . Known for: convicted and sentenced but never executed in the 1692 Salem witch trials; her pregnancy led to her sentence being suspended Occupation: “goodwife” - homemaker Age at time of Salem witch trials: Dates: October 13, 1652 – February 5, 1730 Also known as: Abigail Faulkner Sr., Abigail Faulkner, Dane was also spelled Dean or Deane, Faulkner was also ...
12 de ago. de 2012 · Rev. Francis Dane is my 9x great grandfather, and I descend from Hannah who married William Goodhue. Nathaniel was Hannah's brother (and also wife of Deliverance Dane). I loved the book, too, we read it with my book club several years ago. I grew up in Beverly, and live now not far from Andover. I was baptized at the Dane Street church in Beverly.
