The Lancashire Witches

Pendle Forest in 1612, where a real trial hanged ten people on the evidence of a nine-year-old girl. Ainsworth was a Lancashire man, worked from the surviving court record, and set his romance among people who had actually been named in it. This edition includes a gallery of 59 plates of paintings bound with the text, among them works by Odilon Redon, John Constable and Ivan Shishkin, 1800–1916.