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The passion jeanette winterson analysis6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I did find the historical context really interesting and have since been off finding out more. ![]() We also, through her past, get to see how society is at the time, from the reign of Elizabeth I, who we discover is in part responsible for Alice’s wealth, to the reign of James I, a man who brought fear to a nation through fears of his own. Through Alice we see the events as they unfold with the Device family as they live on her land we also see what happens when she becomes accused and what life is like in the dungeons of Lancaster Castle, which Winterson brings almost too vividly to life. It is Alice that Winterson focuses on for her fictional telling of the events. One of these people was Alice Nutter, a loose thread in the whole trial as unlike the other twelve she was a woman on means and money. It is from this point that several things including the effects of Alizon’s curse, rumours the Device family were all witches and a supposed meeting of witches in the Malkin Tower on Good Friday that lead to a trail of thirteen people, the biggest England had seen to date. ![]() He denied her where upon she placed a curse on him. As pedlar John Law met Alizon Device on one of the many tracks around Pendle Hill, on the 21 st of March 1612, and she asked him for some pins. ‘The Daylight Gate’ opens with the events that really caused the Pendle Witch Trial. ****, Hammer Books, 2012, hardback, fiction, 194 pages, kindly sent by the publisher ![]()
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