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In this episode, we consider Lois the Witch, a haunting novella by Elizabeth Gaskell set against the backdrop of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. With her characteristic emotional depth and historical sensitivity, Gaskell explores themes of fear, isolation, and the dangers of moral panic and in doing so offers a powerful critique of society’s treatment of women, both in 17th-century Massachusetts and Victorian England.
Like many women writers of her time, Gaskell’s work has often been overlooked or dismissed, side-lined as too ‘domestic’ or ‘feminine’ to warrant serious study. A mother of four…
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