Matilda Lockwood

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Witches, Women, and Magdalene Houses: Reclaiming Power Through Fiction

Content warning: institutional abuse, forced adoption, religious coercion.

“The Witch, No. 3” lithograph by Geo. H. Walker & Co., 1892

What do witches and “wayward” laundresses have in common?

Ask history and it will whisper the same answer in two different centuries: they knew too much. In 1650 a healer might be tried for witchcraft after brewing cough-soothing thyme tea; two

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