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So Jennet is your own creation, but many actual historical figures parade through the novel: Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Cotton Mather, the Baron de Montesquieu.
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But when this precocious child witnesses the horrifying death of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly executed as a sorceress, she makes it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. A self-educated "natural philosopher," Jennet is inspired in her quest by a single sentence in a cryptic letter from Isaac Newton: It so happens that in the Investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjoy no essential Existence.
The Last Witchfinder: Summary and book reviews of The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow. 2006
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Browse an author interview and biography of Jennet Conant.
A Conversation with Jennet Conant, author of The Irregulars 2010
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"The housing industry has been preparing itself for the worst for some time, so while the cuts outlined today are not welcome, nor are they a surprise," said Jennet Siebrits, head of residential research at property consultancy CB Richard Ellis.
Housing Sector Slams U.K. Cuts Anita Likus 2010
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Device was accused of being a witch, and was ultimately damned by the testimony of her nine-year-old sister, Jennet.
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Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant: Book summary and media reviews.
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A covert affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS / Jennet Conant—1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented access to Loomis 'papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work.
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A covert affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS / Jennet Conant—1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant: Book summary and media reviews.
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