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  2. Rachel Dyer - Wikipedia

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    Rachel Dyer: A North American Story is a Gothic historical novel by American writer John Neal. Published in 1828 in Maine, it is the first bound novel about the Salem witch trials. Though it garnered little critical notice in its day, it influenced works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Walt Whitman.

  3. Cultural depictions of the Salem witch trials - Wikipedia

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    Rachel Dyer (1828), by John Neal (1793–1876) [1] American poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) wrote many poems about the events, starting with "The Weird Gathering" [2] (1831), and later, "Calef in Boston" [3] (1849), about the public debates between Robert Calef and Cotton Mather in the aftermath of the trials.

  4. List of historical novels - Wikipedia

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    Rachel Dyer: a North American Story by John Neal (Salem witch trials) Logan, a Family History by John Neal (Aftermath of Lord Dunmore's War) Seventy-Six by John Neal (American Revolution) Brother Jonathan by John Neal (American Revolution) Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth and Proceed, Sergeant Lamb by Robert Graves (American Revolution)

  5. Martha Corey - Wikipedia

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    In John Neal's 1828 novel Rachel Dyer, Martha Corey is depicted as aloof and lacking the mental capacity to understand her legal predicament during her trial. [12] After protagonist George Burroughs fails to defend her in court, the attention of the accusers turn to him and he is convicted and executed as a result. [13]

  6. John Neal bibliography - Wikipedia

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    A story of the American Revolution depicting regional American folkways and dialect; [21] in three volumes; excerpted in The Genius of John Neal: Selections from His Writings (1978) [15] [ 9 ] Rachel Dyer: A North American Story

  7. Wikipedia:Main Page history/2022 October 5 - Wikipedia

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    Rachel Dyer is a Gothic novel of historical fiction by American writer John Neal (depicted). Published in 1828 in Maine , it is the first bound novel about the Salem witch trials . It garnered little critical notice in its day but influenced works by better-known authors.

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  9. Tituba - Wikipedia

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    In John Neal's 1828 novel Rachel Dyer, a socially isolated Matthew Paris (based on Samuel Parris) [24] feels threatened by Tituba's relationship with John Indian and is motivated to accuse her of witchcraft as a result. [25] Neal described her as a "female Indian" who "did the drudgery of the house". [26]