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The White Witch of Rosehall

A very striking and curious story, founded on fact, of the West Indies of the early nineteenth century. Robert Rutherford is sent to the Islands to learn the planter's business from the bottom. He becomes an overseer at Rosehall, the property of a young widow, Mrs. Palmer, whose three husbands have all died in curious circumstances.

Themes
gothic
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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