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Mary Beth Norton (born 1943) is an American historian, specializing in American colonial history and well known for her work on women's history and the Salem witch trials. She is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emeritus of American History at the Department of History at Cornell University .
Mary Beth Norton, professor emeritus of American History at the Department of History at Cornell University; Louise Pound, folklorist, linguist, and college professor at the University of Nebraska; Stephen Silvia, professor at American University's School of International Service
It is unclear what happened to Hubbard after the trials concluded. American historian Mary Beth Norton states in her book In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 that Hubbard moved from Salem to Gloucester in Massachusetts. Norton purports that Hubbard married a man named John Bennett, with whom she had four children.
Mary Norton may refer to: Andre Norton (1912–2005), American author; born Alice Mary Norton; Mary Beth Norton (born 1943), American historian; Mary D. Herter Norton (1894–1985), American publisher, violinist, and translator; co-founder of W. W. Norton & Company; Mary Norton (writer) (1903–1992), English author of the series The Borrowers
Puffin Books published a 700-page trade paperback omnibus edition in 1983, The Complete Borrowers Stories [7] with a short introduction by Norton. [ 1 ] The primary cause of trouble and source of plot is the interaction between the minuscule Borrowers and the "human beans", whether the human motives are kind or selfish.
Thus, Mary Beth Norton, whose work draws the parallel between the Salem witch trials and King Philip's War, argues implicitly that a combination of PTSD and a popular societal narrative of betrayal-from-within caused the unusual characteristics of this particular witch trial. [9] [10] [11] [12]
The Borrowers Afield is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton, published in 1955 by Dent in the UK and Harcourt in the US. It was the second of five books in a series that is usually called The Borrowers , inaugurated by The Borrowers in 1952.
John Demos, "Daughters of the Revolution", New York Times, April 28, 1996; a brief summary of the case in a review of Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) Women & The American Story.