For Howe, it stirred her interest in learning about daily life in that time period.Īmerica's fascination with the Salem witch trials continues hundreds of years later, and Howe reminds us that these were individual people, with strengths and flaws like anyone else. For many people, uncovering a family connection is a way to personalize a period of history that otherwise feels too remote to be really relatable. Howe, whose family settled in Essex County, Massachusetts in the 1620's, is related to accused Salem witches Elizabeth Proctor and Elizabeth Howe. Katherine Howe is the author of the #2 New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, a spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history – the Salem witch trials.
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