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Witchcraft
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“The Witch” and the History of Euro-American Domestic Violence
“Women and children in Western history could and did find in witchcraft relief from the violence they endured in their own families.”
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The North Is the Dark Place
“The North is the dark place.” The first words of The Daylight Gate will not be surprising to readers familiar with Jeanette Winterson’s gothic upbringing in the north of England (200 Water Street, Accrington, Lancashire, to be precise). In both her brilliant debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), and her recent memoir,…
