· Kathleen Kent is the author of the Edgar Award-nominated The Dime, as well as the bestselling historical novels The Heretic's Daughter, The ISBN The Heretics Daughter By Kathleen Kent Martha Carrier was hanged on August 19th in Salem, Massachusetts, unyielding in her refusal to admit to being a witch, going to her death rather than joining the ranks of men and women who confessed and were thereby spared execution. Historical Fiction. The Heretic’s Daughter, The Traitor’s Wife, and The Outcasts are three of Kathleen Kent’s novels in historical fiction. View Books.
How has reading the book changed your opinions about the men and women hanged as witches? 9. Are there modern day "witches"? Can we, or should we, redefine the meaning of the word "witch"? The Heretic's Daughter. by Kathleen Kent. Publication Date: Octo. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent. Overview - A courageous woman fights to survive the darkest days of the Salem Witch Trials in this "heart-wrenching story of family love and sacrifice" (USA Today). Salem, Sarah Carrier Chapman, weak with infirmity, writes a letter to her granddaughter that reveals the secret she has closely. Kathleen Kent's debut, The Heretic's Daughter, a novelization of a true event, tells the story of one family caught up in the madness. The Carriers are not like other Puritan families. The patriarch, Thomas, is over seven feet tall. His much younger wife, Martha, is difficult and sharp tongued, and no one knows this more than her daughter.
The Heretic's Daughter Ms. Kent is a very descriptive and engaging writer. Her painstaking research is obvious. However, the book is extremely sluggish in the beginning, and even later on. She gets bogged down in too many details and the story doesn't go anywhere for a Read More. Historical Fiction. The Heretic’s Daughter, The Traitor’s Wife, and The Outcasts are three of Kathleen Kent’s novels in historical fiction. View Books. But guilt is a ghost that takes the shape of the body it inhabits and consumes all that is tender within its shell." The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent is largely the story of Martha Carrier, "the Andover witch", as told from the perspective of her young daughter Sarah.
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