Lois the Witch: and Other Tales

Lois the Witch and Other Tales is an 1861 collection of five stories byElizabeth Gaskell.In the title story, LoisBarclay is raised in a parsonage in Barford, Warwickshire but as shebecomes a young woman both her parents die. In 1691 she crosses theAtlantic to live with her uncle and his family in Salem, Massachusettsand then becomes involved in the Salem witch trials.