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The Scold S Bridle
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Author : Minette Walters
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1995
The Scold S Bridle written by Minette Walters and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
Few tears fall when rich, spiteful old Mathilda Gillespie's bloody corpse is found her bathtub, her wrists slit and the ancient scold's bridle clamped on her head. It seems Mathilda's favorite heirloom was also an instrument of torture form the Middle Ages, an iron cage used to gag yapping women. Among the Dorset villagers, only Sarah Blakeney, Mathilda's doctor for her final year, seems even mildly disturbed that the miserable nag has been muzzled forever. But suicide starts to look like homicide, and Sarah's sorrow seems a bit contrived when the bombshell drops that Mathilda has disinherited her daughter and granddaughter, leaving her entire fortune to Sarah. Now the object of vicious gossip and the police's prime suspect in a brutal murder, Sarah must prove her innocence by delving into Mathilda's past to unmask the real killer.
The Scold S Bridle
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Author : Minette Walters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Scold S Bridle written by Minette Walters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Amnesia categories.
The Scold S Bridle
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Author : Minette Walters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Scold S Bridle
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Author : Minette Walters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-02-01
Scold S Bridle written by Minette Walters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-01 with categories.
Minette Walters takes us on a compelling and unpredictable tour of the tensions between generations, and along a trail of grief made obscure by the mysterious loss of Mathilda's detailed, shocking and very personal diaries.
The Scold S Bridle
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Author : Minette Walters
language : en
Publisher: Pan
Release Date : 2007-08-01
The Scold S Bridle written by Minette Walters and has been published by Pan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-01 with categories.
Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she'd taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman's face.
Scold S Bridle
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Author : Ronna Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-05-28
Scold S Bridle written by Ronna Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-28 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Scold's Bridle is a backward-in-time series of short stories depicting the violent oppression, complicity, and participation of white women, exposing individual choices that resulted in the abandonment of sisterhood for survival. The past is not what we are told and, at every turn, religion holds the sharp stick, the torch, or the bridle. Scold's Bridle straddles the line between page-turner and deep narrative. Main character Rebecca is villainous and predatory, a narcissistic preacher's wife intent on manipulating her husband's success and keeping her daughter Rae Ann in line. She has an unfortunate attraction to Rae Ann's teenage boyfriend, the son of Delfa the faith healer, whose magical powers become apparent as the story unfolds. Tracking the characters back through time, Rebecca is a young mother desperate to escape poverty in Idaho, the "owner" of enslaved people in Mississippi, a starving colonialist in Massachusetts, and a woman with a terrible choice to make in medieval Scotland. It is not what she will do in the future but rather what she has done in the past that corrupts her. Delfa, always the intuitive crone, becomes the main character in the last chapter when Rebecca's betrayal seals the fate of them all. Chapters are each set in a different time and place, beginning in the twenty-first century and ending in the sixteenth century, visiting the three women as they were in that time and place. All events are based on true stories as seen through the eyes and participation of the main characters.
The Scold S Bridle
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Author : Minette Walters
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-03-18
The Scold S Bridle written by Minette Walters and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-18 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, The Scold's Bridle is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again . . . What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing . . . Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman’s face, a metal contraption grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and Michaelmas daisies. What happened at Cedar House in the tortured hours before Mathilda's death? The police assume that the coroner will return a verdict of suicide. Only Dr Blakeney, it seems, doubts the verdict. Until it is discovered that Mathilda’s diaries have disappeared . . .
Scold S Bridle 24dp
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Author : St. Martins Mass Mark Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-10-01
Scold S Bridle 24dp written by St. Martins Mass Mark Staff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-10-01 with categories.
Branks And Bridles
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Author : R. S. Mannheim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-10
Branks And Bridles written by R. S. Mannheim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-10 with categories.
This illustrated non-fiction work traces the history of the scold's bridle, also known as the brank in Scotland and closely related to the schandmaske as used in Europe. The account opens with a survey of various designs, all of them are daunting but there are some quite horrific ones which could inflict lasting injuries.The author goes on to debunk the myth that these were used to punish nagging wives, and demonstrates, instead, that the power brokers of medieval society used the bridles as a means of public humiliation, to silence opposition from the lower classes, and to stop dominant females gaining power in society.There is also a section on how such artefacts were used with great cruelty as part of the witch craze, especially in Scotland.Covering a historical period from 1560 to 1860, the book is richly illustrated, throughout, with pictures of genuine museum artefacts and simulations of the items in use. Some readers may be surprised to learn that these cruel gadgets were still being used in the Victorian workhouse, the prison and the lunatic asylum, well into the 19th Century, long after their use had been abandoned in the outside world.One telling section investigates the modern trend in replica items and offers advice on how to tell the fake from the real thing.Originally planned as the third in a series on the history of punishment, this is the first to be released and it is no exaggeration to say that it will change, forever, the public perception of these grim instruments of torment.
On The Branks Or Scold S Bridle Formerly Belonging To The Township Of Farnworth Lancashire
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Author : James Kendrick
language : en
Publisher:
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On The Branks Or Scold S Bridle Formerly Belonging To The Township Of Farnworth Lancashire written by James Kendrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.