Mary Beth Norton
IN THE DEVIL’S SNARE
Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University. She is the author of
The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774–1789; Liberty’s
Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women,
1750–1800; Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the
Forming of American Society,
which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and (with five others)
A People and a Nation
(6th ed., 2001). She has also served as the general editor of
The AHA Guide to Historical Literature
(3rd ed., 1995).
ALSO BY MARY BETH NORTON
Founding Mothers & Fathers:
Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
(1996)
Liberty’s Daughters:
The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800
(1980)
The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774–1789
(1972)
(coauthor)
A People and a Nation
(sixth edition, 2001)
EDITOR
(with Ruth Alexander)
Major Problems in American Women’s History
(third edition, 2003)
The AHA Guide to Historical Literature
(third edition, 1995)
(with Carol Groneman)
To Toil the Livelong Day:
America’s Women at Work, 1790–1980
(1987)
(with Carol Berkin)
Women of America: A History
(1979)
FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, NOVEMBER 2003
Copyright © 2002 by Mary Beth Norton
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Norton, Mary Beth.
In the devil’s snare: the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692 / by Mary Beth Norton. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Witchcraft—Massachusetts. 2. Massachusetts—History—Colonial
period, ca. 1600–1775. 3. Trials (Witchcraft)—Massachusetts—Salem.
4. Salem (Mass.)—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775. I. Title.
BF1575 .N67 2002
133.4’3’097445—dc21
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