MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 1 $aReilly-McGreen, M. E.
245 10 $aWitches, wenches, and wild women of Rhode Island /$cM.E. Reilly-McGreen.
260 $aCharleston, SC :$bHistory Press,$c2010.
263 $a1003
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $apt. 1. Thirteen witches and a vampire -- Tuggie Bannock : Narragansett's would-be witch -- Mercy Brown : eternally bewitched and bedeviled -- Rebecca Cornell : burn, witch, burn? -- The devil comes a callin' -- Doing battle with the devil -- Granny Mott : Hopkinton's hag -- Narragansett's Rumplestiltskin -- Elizabeth Seager : the devil as her witness? -- The Spanish sea witch -- Tall "Dutch" Kattern : mystic or menace? -- Sylvia Tory : witch of Ministerial Woods -- Jemima Wilkinson : holy woman or heretic? -- The witch of Hopkins Hill -- Witches' altar -- pt. 2. Wenches or wretches? -- Betsy Bowen : "vice-queen of America" -- Dolly Cole : the transvestite prostitute/vampire/witch of Foster? -- Huldy Craddock : housekeeper from hell -- Forbidden fruit sold locally -- Hell's half acre -- The mad mama of Block Island -- Catherine Mount : guilt by association -- Evelyn Nesbit : vixen or victim? -- Mary Rosse and her womanly wiles -- pt. 3. Wild women -- Alva Vanderbilt Belmont : American tigress -- Mary Dyer : American martyr -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman : the woman behind the wallpaper -- Julia Ward Howe : mother of Mother's Day -- Anne Hutchinson : "American Jezebel" -- Ida Lewis : seafaring savior -- Kate Chase Sprague : beauty and the beast -- Beatrice Turner : imprisoned painted lady -- Edith Wharton : exposing the elite -- Sarah Helen Whitman : Poe's paramour and protector.
650 0 $aWomen$zRhode Island$vBiography.
650 0 $aWitches$zRhode Island$vBiography.
651 0 $aRhode Island$vBiography.