Lady Science no. 31: Witches and Wives

The Personal in the Professional: a 19th-Century Hangover by Amanda Barnett

Forced into the Fringe: Margaret Murray’s Witch-Cult Hypothesis by Kathleen Sheppard

For this issue, Contributing Editor Kathleen Sheppard writes about Margaret Murray, not as Egyptologist or archaeologist, but as a folklorist who wrote the first definitive study of witches. Guest writer Amanda Barnett explores the differences of writing about male and female scientists' personal and professional lives.

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This issue is published in syndication with The New Inquiry.

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