The Puritans were fond of names based on virtues. On the paper is written two words: Deliverance Dane.Ĭonsulting with her doctoral advisor, Connie decides that it must be a name. Hollow, it contains a small slip of paper which she carefully extracts. Out of the Bible has dropped an antique key. Thumbing through it, she drops it as her hand begins to feel hot and strange. In the midst of her cleaning, she takes out an ancient family Bible. The house is in the little town, Marblehead, Massachusetts, and hasn’t been occupied since her grandmother died, twenty years earlier. Thus she is annoyed when her flaky mother, Grace, asks her to spend time cleaning up the old family home, preparing it for sale. She is specializing in the early colonial period and needs to come up with a topic for her dissertation after completing her oral exams. candidate at prestigious Harvard University in 1991. It was only natural that she conceived a novel which incorporates these two aspects of herself.Ĭonnie Goodwin is a Ph.D. Katherine Howe, the author of this book, is descended from two accused Salem witches and is working on her Ph.D.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |