The minister's daughter
By: by Julie Hearn.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Hopkins, Matthew, d. 1647 -- Fiction; Witchcraft -- Fiction; Trials (Witchcraft) -- Fiction; Fairies -- Fiction; Supernatural -- Fiction; Pregnancy -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction; Somerset (England) -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Fiction
Description: In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.
Notes: Published in Great Britain under the title "The Merrybegot."