TY - BOOK AU - Neal,John TI - Rachel Dyer AV - PS PY - 2023/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Historical fiction KW - Trials (Witchcraft) -- Fiction KW - Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction KW - Quaker women -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dyer; Release date is 2023-09-30; Alan, Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Rachel Dyer: A North American Story" by John Neal is a Gothic historical novel published in 1828. Set during the Salem witch trials, it follows the fictionalized minister George Burroughs and the invented character Rachel Dyer as they confront mounting hysteria and false accusations of witchcraft. With most of the story unfolding in the courtroom, the novel tracks multiple trials of alleged witches, exploring themes of justice, republican ideals, and the collision between Old World authority and New World freedom. This pioneering work became the first bound novel about Salem's dark chapter. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044009799834 UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71766 ER -