A new poetry collection about a Cambridge women unjustly hanged as a witch, and new National Endowment for the Humanities grants for local writers
NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS A new poetry collection about a Cambridge woman unjustly hanged as a witch, and new National Endowment for the Humanities grants for local writers By Nina MacLaughlin Globe Correspondent,Updated December 28, 2020, 10:44 a.m. Email to a Friend Verses of the accused In Cambridge in 1650, a woman was wrongly accused and hanged for bewitching her friendâs child to death. Shortly after her hanging, it came to light that the child froze to death because his nurse left him in the cold woods during a loverâs tryst. Such are the facts that drive Cambridge poet Denis...
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