Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials Audiobook CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged Author: Visit Amazon's Marilynne K. Roach Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1494550407 | Format: EPUB
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials Audiobook CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged Description
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"[Full of] the author's deep knowledge of virtually every man, woman and child affected by the trials in this bizarre period." ---Kirkus
About the Author
Marilynne K. Roach earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and works as both a historian and illustrator. She is also the author of The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege. She lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Stage actress Kate Reading has been a freelance narrator for over twenty years. She has received multiple Audie Awards and nominations, as well as numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which has named her Narrator of the Year and, for two years running, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- Audio CD
- Publisher: Tantor; MP3 - Unabridged CD edition (March 17, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1494550407
- ISBN-13: 978-1494550400
- Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Many thanks to Perseus Books Group / Da Capo Press for providing this eGalley to me through NetGalley. Although it was provided at no cost, I am under no obligation to give a positive review.
Growing up, I was very fortunate to have my maternal grandmother and her husband work in the tourism industry in Williamsburg, Virginia. I got an early exposure to colonial America to go along with my always strong love of history in general. Naturally, I have also been interested in the happenings in Salem, Massachusetts, knowing it can be very difficult to separate fact from fiction from urban legend.
Enter this wonderful book by Marilynne K. Roach. It should be noted before beginning that this is not Roach's first rodeo when it comes to scholarly work on the Salem witch trials. She's well-respected in that area as a quick Google search will reveal.
That said, what Roach brings to the table with this offering is humanization of the accused as well as providing a smaller scope of the trials. Rather than looking at the trials in a larger overview, she takes six women accused of being witches and gets into extraordinary detail about their lives. With each woman, she digs into their family, genealogy and the events surrounding the accusations against them and subsequent trial.
This works very well to humanize the accused, as you can see them as individual persons, not just numbers or statistics. Additionally, Roach makes an effort to get into each woman's head to try and see the happenings through their eyes. This further brings the subject to a more personal level.
The only downside of the book is that it does get tedious at times. It took me a bit before I really got rolling, once I finished the first woman's story.
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