num_pages: 320
description: The novel, in diary form, tells the story of Dorcas Good, a four year old child accused of witchcraft along with her mother and several other women during the hysteria of 1692. It is, in all probability, the first documented case of child abuse in this country. The saga follows Dorcas through her imprisonment as a young child, to her mother being led to the gallows and on to her young adult years and the abuse that she suffered at the hands of her jailers and especially from her own father. Rose Earhart allows the reader to experience the flavor of life in 1692 Salem including all of the difficulties and struggles of everyday life. She manages to portray with amazing clarity and passion the accounts of the horrific injustices and degrading circumstances of living on the edge of society that Dorcas and her mother, Sarah, had to endure even before the witch hysteria began. The Diary of Dorcas Good finally tells the real story of the savagery and terror of the Salem Witch Trials.
language: English
title: The Diary of Dorcas Good, Child Witch of Salem
titlecomplete: The Diary of Dorcas Good, Child Witch of Salem
genres: Paranormal, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Witches
ratings_count: 90
publisher: Hushion House