(Download pdf ebook) Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story
▲ Peter Marshall ▲
| #3635775 in Books | 2007-05-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.10 x1.10 x7.80l,1.04 | File Name: 0199273715 | 323 pages
||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Real Ghost Story within Real History|By Rob Hardy|In late October 1634, in the fishing village of Minehead in Somerset, England, Susan Leakey died. She was a widow who had been living in her son Alexander's home, and Alexander's wife Elizabeth was there as well. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had not gotten along well, and on her deathbed, Susan Leakey said she would be|||"This is an extraordinary book.... Marshall's splendidly readable book is a model of how history should be written and practiced."--William Gibson, Archives||"This is as fine an example of microhistory as is likely to be written. Marshall not only d
Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English coastal town of Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. December 1640: a disgraced Protestant bishop is hanged in the Irish capital, Dublin, after being convicted of an 'unspeakable' crime. In this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Peter Marshall sets out to uncover the intriguing links between these two seemingly unconnected events. The result ...
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