The dead are all around us
Hilary Mantel: Helen Duncan, 10 May 2001
Hellish Nell: Last of Britain’s Witches
by Malcolm Gaskill.
Fourth Estate, 402 pp., £15.99, April 2001,1 84115 109 2 Show More
by Malcolm Gaskill.
Fourth Estate, 402 pp., £15.99, April 2001,
“... leanings, have been enough to make the case bob back into public consciousness every few years. As Malcolm Gaskill says, ‘we inherit ancestral tales reworked by each generation to make their truth powerful rather than precise, moral rather than empirical.’ Among the majority today, reverence for Churchill survives surprisingly intact; it is a ... ”