As this is a work of fiction, for storytelling purposes and to help distinguish between characters, certain names and accounts have been changed, amended or altered with the intention to best serve the book as a whole. I have attempted to do this with as much integrity and authenticity as possible. Research for historical fiction is challenging because sources are often in conflict. I read as long and as much as I could and I traveled to Massachusetts. At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, I examined furniture, porringers and articles from the seventeenth century. I visited Danvers, Massachusetts (what used to be Salem Village), walked the Nurse family farm and breathed the air. Step away from the wax witch museum in Salem, and you can smell the ghosts. The spirits remind us all: do not forget what happened here.
SHOULD YOU WISH TO EXPLORE FURTHER
Here is a Partial List of Sources Used for Wicked Girls
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
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About the Author
STEPHANIE HEMPHILL is the author of YOUR OWN, SYLVIA: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath and THINGS LEFT UNSAID: A Novel in Poems. YOUR OWN, SYLVIA was a 2008 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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WICKED GIRLS: A NOVEL OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS. Copyright © 2010 by Stephanie Hemphill. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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