num_pages: 338
description: Connie Goodwin is an expert on Americas fractured past with witchcraft. A young tenure-track professor in Boston shes earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial Americaespecially womens home recipes and medicinesand by exposing society's threats against women fluent in those skills. But beyond her studies Connie harbors a secret: She is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem an ancestor whose abilities were far more magical than the historical record shows.Flashing back through American history to the lives of certain supernaturally gifted women The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs affectingly reveals not only the special bond that unites one particular matriarchal line but also explores the many challenges to womens survival across the decadesand the risks some women are forced to take to protect what they love most.
language: English
title: The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.