Witches, wenches, and wild women of Rhode Island
By: M.E. Reilly-McGreen
Publisher: History Press; The History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781596299375
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Thirteen witches and a vampire; title: Tuggie Bannock : Narragansett's would-be witch; title: Mercy Brown : eternally bewitched and bedeviled; title: Rebecca Cornell : burn, witch, burn?; title: The devil comes a callin'; title: Doing battle with the devil; title: Granny Mott : Hopkinton's hag; title: Narragansett's Rumplestiltskin; title: Elizabeth Seager : the devil as her witness?; title: The Spanish sea witch; title: Tall "Dutch" Kattern : mystic or menace?; title: Sylvia Tory : witch of Ministerial Woods; title: Jemima Wilkinson : holy woman or heretic?; title: The witch of Hopkins Hill; title: Witches' altar; title: pt. 2. Wenches or wretches?; title: Betsy Bowen : "vice-queen of America"; title: Dolly Cole : the transvestite prostitute/vampire/witch of Foster?; title: Huldy Craddock : housekeeper from hell; title: Forbidden fruit sold locally; title: Hell's half acre; title: The mad mama of Block Island; title: Catherine Mount : guilt by association; title: Evelyn Nesbit : vixen or victim?; title: Mary Rosse and her womanly wiles; title: pt. 3. Wild women; title: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont : American tigress; title: Mary Dyer : American martyr; title: Charlotte Perkins Gilman : the woman behind the wallpaper; title: Julia Ward Howe : mother of Mother's Day; title: Anne Hutchinson : "American Jezebel"; title: Ida Lewis : seafaring savior; title: Kate Chase Sprague : beauty and the beast; title: Beatrice Turner : imprisoned painted lady; title: Edith Wharton : exposing the elite; title: Sarah Helen Whitman : Poe's paramour and protector.