Mother Leakey and the bishop : a ghost story /
In 1636 sightings of the ghost of an old woman are reported in Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. In 1940 a disgraced Protestant bishop is hanged in Dublin, after being convicted of an 'unspeakable crime'. Marshall sets out to uncover the link between these seemingly...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- NOTE TO READERS; ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CAST OF CHARACTERS; Prologue: A Haunting in Minehead; 1. The World of the Leakeys; 2. The Leakeys' Other World; 3. The Devil Let Loose off his Chain; 4. The Shameful End of Bishop Atherton; 5. The Penitent Death of a Woeful Sinner; 6. Athenianism; 7. The Narratives of the Reverend John Quick; 8. Atherton and Leakey: History and Folklore; Epilogue: Mother Leakey's Parlour; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES CITED; INDEX.