6/11/2023 0 Comments A discovery of witches book 5![]() ![]() Another visiting American scholar and fellow witch, Gillian Chamberlain, tries unsuccessfully to get Diana to join the local coven. Diana doesn’t need her magic to be successful in the academic world: She is a published author and tenured faculty member at Yale. Instead, Diana relies on research and science to direct her own life. Diana resists her own magical powers because she blames her parents’ magic for their disappearance and death in Africa. Diana’s Aunt Sarah, her mother’s sister, is also a witch, and the Bishops can trace their family history back to Bridget Bishop, the first witch executed during the Salem witch trials. Diana’s mother, Rebecca Bishop, was a talented witch who married Stephen Proctor, an equally powerful wizard. Diana is a witch, although she rejects this part of her heritage. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. She fears that her husband is too full othmilk of human. Deborah Harkness's sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. Diana senses immediately that the book has supernatural power. Lady Macbeth reads a letter from her husband about his encounter with the witches. The book, known as Ashmole 782, is a “thick quarto-size manuscript” bound in calfskin (1), and part of Bodleian’s collection of works by the 17th century alchemist, Elias Ashmole. Diana Bishop discovers an unusual book while researching 17th century chemistry at Oxford’s Bodleian Library. ![]()
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