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by Elizabeth Gaskell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Assistedreadingbooks.com Inc; large type edition edition (1 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1425003508
  • ISBN-13: 978-1425003500
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Recently orphaned, Lois is forced to leave the English parsonage that had been her home, and sail to America. A Godfearing and honest girl, she has little to fear in this new life. Yet as she joins her distant family, she finds jealousy and dissention are rife, and her cousins quick to point the finger at the 'impostor'. With the whole of Salem gripped by a fear of the supernatural, it seems her home is where she is in most danger. Lonely and afraid, the words of an old curse return to haunt her. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mrs Gaskell's dark side, 28 Mar 2008
This review is from: Lois the Witch (Hesperus Classics) (Paperback)
I studied Elizabeth Gaskell's North And South for my English Literature A Level, without much enthusiasm. Nearly 20 years later, I've taken a look at Mrs Gaskell's other work. She also wrote a number of short stories in the gothic genre, seemingly a world away from her more familiar social realism.

Lois The Witch is a novella based on the Salem Witch Trials of the late 17th century. Its heroine is an English girl, orphaned and sent to live with relatives in America. Gaskell depicts the climate of the new country powerfully. From the outset there is a sense of barely-suppressed fear and suspicion.

Puritanism had its grip on the pioneers, and tales of Indians in the woods are fed to the unsuspecting Lois. Nattee, the Indian maid, tells other stories - of memory and magic, her only link to a land and culture that has slipped from her hands.

It is perhaps inevitable that Lois, stranger in a strange town, will be accused when rumours of witchcraft start to fly. The strength of this novella lies in its characters - Gaskell could easily have written them off as grotesques, given her themes of religious mania, ignorance and bigotry. But she resists the temptation, and shows through each individual how the hysteria spread and turned the people of Salem against each other.

As is not uncommon in Victorian fiction, Mrs Gaskell interjects the narrative with her own opinions, and the benefit of hindsight. The story is less effective when she inserts statistics and speeches from the real Salem trials. It reads too much like journalism and seems out of place when she has already evoked the phenomenon so well through her own imagination.

All in all, Lois The Witch is well worth reading for anyone who has an interest in the Salem case. It has been published as a novella, and is also included in a collection of Mrs Gaskell's gothic works.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Read, 26 Aug 2007
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Most people have seen or read The Crucible, but long before that Elizabeth Gaskell had written this amazing novella. Lois is a young girl living with relatives in Salem at the time of the infamous witch trials, and inevitably becomes caught up in them and accused of witch craft. With this book you get a true feeling of what it must have been like in those times, and how people felt and reacted to what was going on around them. This is truly a book that you can't put down until you have finished it, and the story stays in your mind for a long time after. Probably Gaskell's best story.
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