The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

"The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest" by William Harrison Ainsworth is a historical novel published in 1849. Based on the true story of the Pendle witches executed in 1612, the tale weaves together the dark history of witchcraft accusations with the turbulent backdrop of Henry VIII's English Reformation. When Abbot John Paslew refuses a mysterious man's demand to baptize his infant daughter, he unleashes a curse that echoes across generations, binding together religious upheaval, demonic bargains, and the tragic fate of families accused of witchcraft. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882
Illustrator Gilbert, John, 1817-1897
Title The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancashire_Witches
Credits Produced by Clare Boothby, Jon King and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Witches -- Fiction
Subject Lancashire (England) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 15493
Release Date
Last Update Dec 14, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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