TY - BOOK AU - Kent,Kathleen TI - The heretic's daughter: a novel SN - 9780316024488 AV - PS3611.E674 H47 2008 U1 - 813/.6KEN 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Co. KW - Witchcraft KW - Massachusetts KW - Salem KW - Fiction KW - Trials (Witchcraft) KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Salem (Mass.) KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd N2 - Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2008001887-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2008001887-d.html ER -