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    Rachel Dyer: A North American Story is a Gothic historical novel by American writer John Neal. Published in 1828 in Maine, it is the first bound novel...
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    biography of Dyer. While the parents of Mary Dyer have not been identified, Johan Winsser made a significant discovery concerning a brother of Dyer, which he...
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  • appears as Samuel Parris' daughter in John Neal's historical novel, Rachel Dyer (1828). Arthur Miller's 1952 play The Crucible is loosely based on actual...
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    media remain, for the most part, fictional. In John Neal's 1828 novel Rachel Dyer, a socially isolated Matthew Paris (based on Samuel Parris) feels threatened...
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  • Ryder in the 1996 film adaptation of the play. In John Neal's 1828 novel Rachel Dyer, Abigail Williams appears as the character Bridget Pope. Neal links the...
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  • chief rival, John Neal, wrote Rachel Dyer (1828), the first bound novel about the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Rachel Dyer also influenced future American...
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    his highest literary achievements and ranked with the best of his age. Rachel Dyer is considered his best novel, "Otter-Bag, the Oneida Chief" and "David...
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  • directed by Jac Cron in her feature directorial debut, and starring Natalia Dyer, Rachel Keller, Danny Ramirez and Chella Man. Chestnut had its world premiere...
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  • accents, including three novels by John Neal: Brother Jonathan (1825), Rachel Dyer (1828), and The Down-Easters, &c. &c. &c. (1833). The work was one of...
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    children who had maintained that he was innocent. In John Neal's 1828 novel Rachel Dyer, Martha Corey is depicted as aloof and lacking the mental capacity to...
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    to the families of the witchcraft victims. In John Neal's 1828 novel Rachel Dyer, Sarah Good pronounces a curse from the gallows that may have inspired...
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    Bruce Davison, respectively. Author John Neal made Parris a character in Rachel Dyer (1828), which is the first bound novel about the witch trials. In this...
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    impactful use as the basis for an item of popular fiction is the 1828 novel Rachel Dyer by John Neal. Many interpretations have taken liberties with the facts...
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    Dyer on Disney+ Show (Exclusive)". Variety. Retrieved 16 May 2023. Streeting, Louise (23 March 2023). "Disney+ confirms David Tennant and Danny Dyer for...
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    Hutchinson and her friend Mary Dyer, the Quaker martyr, have been remembered at Founders Brook Park with the Anne Hutchinson/Mary Dyer Memorial Herb Garden, a...
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  • underlying hold on American society ripened the blossoming of stories like Rachel Dyer (the first novel about the Salem witch trials), "The Pit and the Pendulum"...
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    John Neal in 1943, "Critical Essays and Stories by John Neal" in 1962, Rachel Dyer in 1964, Seventy-Six in 1971, and The Genius of John Neal in 1978, the...
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    more fully in earlier works by John Neal: novels Randolph (1823) and Rachel Dyer (1828). Whitman, likely having read all three, consciously set out to...
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    declaration was adopted, but never made binding. In John Neal's 1828 novel Rachel Dyer, Increase Mather appears at the end of Martha Corey's witchcraft trial...
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    voices, Neal expressed the same year in the "Unpublished Preface" to Rachel Dyer that "to succeed...[the American writer] must resemble nobody...[he]...
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    Journal and Belles-Lettres Repository, a New York-based literary journal Rachel Dyer (1828), by John Neal (1793–1876) American poet John Greenleaf Whittier...
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    sure you will have your reward in every way." Reading Neal's 1828 novel Rachel Dyer inspired Whittier to weave New England witchcraft lore into his own stories...
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  • Morier – The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England John Neal – Rachel Dyer: a North American Story Lord Normanby – Yes and No T. J. Llewelyn Prichard...
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  • Prehistoric Britain through the 1980s The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon Rachel Dyer: a North American Story by John Neal (Salem witch trials) Logan, a Family...
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  • Caribbean by James A. Michener Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton (17th) Rachel Dyer by John Neal (late 17th) The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder...
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  • Women of Brewster Place Shira Nayman (born 1960) John Neal (1793–1876), Rachel Dyer: a North American Story Antonya Nelson (born 1961), Talking in Bed Howard...
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    Dictionary, and A Dictionary of Americanisms. In the "Unpublished Preface" to Rachel Dyer (1828), Neal himself claimed the representation of American speech in...
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    1823, Randolph in 1823, Errata in 1823, Brother Jonathan in 1825, and Rachel Dyer (earliest use of the Salem witch trials as the basis for a novel) in...
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  • of America – John James Audubon; The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni; Rachel Dyer – John Neal 1829 in literature – The Misfortunes of Elphin – Thomas Love...
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    ISBN 978-3-319-28147-6. Bass, David; Tikhonenkov, Denis Victorovich; Foster, Rachel; Dyal, Patricia; Janouškovec, Jan; Keeling, Patrick J.; et al. (2018). "Rhizarian...
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