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Marilynne K. Roach is an American historian, writer, and illustrator and a leading authority on the Salem witch trials, author of the acclaimed day-by-day chronicle The Salem Witch Trials and Six Women of Salem.
Marilynne K. Roach has devoted decades of original archival research to the 1692 Salem witch trials, becoming one of the foremost experts on the subject. Both a historian and an illustrator, she brings a distinctive attention to the everyday material life of colonial New England.
Her major work, The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege, reconstructs the events in meticulous detail, while Six Women of Salem tells the story through the lives of individual women. Her illustrated In the Days of the Salem Witchcraft Trials offers an accessible, vivid introduction to the trials and the colonial world that produced them.
Roach is recognized for grounding the dramatic events of Salem in the concrete reality of seventeenth-century daily life, making one of history’s most studied episodes comprehensible and vivid.
by Marilynne K. Roach
Marilynne K. Roach's vivid, illustrated account of the 1692 Salem witch trials. Drawing on deep archival research, it recreates the everyday world of colonial New England — its homes, beliefs, and fears — to illuminate how an ordinary community descended into the hysteria that condemned its own.
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