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Mercy Short: A Winter Journal, North Boston, 1692-93
Mercy Short A Winter Journal North Boston 169293 Author:Norma Farber Mercy Short, a seventeen-year-old indentured servant, writes a diary describing her Bedevilment, the murder of her family, her captivity by the Tawnies, and her ransom by the Boston church of Cotton Mather. — Set in the winter of 1692 -- just after the Salem witch trials, during which young Cotton Mather established his reputation as an exorcist,... more » this novel is drawn from an actual account of Mercy Short by Mr. Mather, and presents a portrait of a headstrong, courageous heroine torn between her own fears and hopes and those of the God-fearing Puritan minister.« less