However, the movement itself is not just for the rights of women, it also serves as a coverup for the Eastwood sisters’ own growing power throughout the city of New Salem a force that reconciled the sisterhood of these three and brought forward a new sisterhood between the women of New Salem.Īgnes Amaranth is the middle sister and a solitary individual, and Alix Harrow’s favorite: “I had a newborn and a two-year-old while I was writing this book, and the idea of a character who found strength in motherhood, rather than sentimentality or weakness or softness is one that mattered a great deal to me.” Juniper is the first to become involved with the women’s suffrage movement, later involving her sisters. She also happens to be the most dedicated to her roots and a proud witch – something that is consistently frowned upon within the pages of this book and is a trait that makes her incredibly appealing in the new age of activism. There are so many characters that you come to love in this book my favorite happens to be James Juniper, the youngest of all the Eastwood sisters, on a journey to leave her traumatic past behind. But can they balance witchery and activism? The protagonists of the book, the three Eastwood sisters, display a sense of morality that isn’t heard of from witches in the tales stemming from centuries ago they are activists fighting for their rights as women. Harrow admits that the idea wasn’t entirely hers: “ I wish I could say it came to me in a dream, but the honest truth is that I was trying really hard to come up with a new novel idea, and my husband said, ‘you should do witches, but like, activists.'” And from there, The Once and Future Witches was born a story combining the modern understanding of witchery with the age-old movement of the Suffragettes. The story is set in 1893, during the time of the suffragette movement, a nd did I mention that the main characters are activist witches? The Once and Future Witches is a novel that centers around injustices that, sadly, are still all too familiar to modern-day society, legal, economic, social and racial. Harrow recalls tales told in her childhood, “There are witches in so many of our stories,” she says in an exclusive interview with The Tempest, “creeping along the margins, waiting at crossroads and hexing babies I guess it was only a matter of time before we started dragging them out into the light.” And drag to the light she did. Why are we taught that the witches are always the villains of the story?Īuthor Alix E.
She is so widely hated by people because of the inconvenience she causes Dorothy, but I secretly liked her better.
We’ve all heard the witch tales told to us as little girls – the Wicked Witch of the West was a popular one in my childhood. Harrow’s new novel The Once and Future Witches. Why have regular activists when you can have activist witches? I found the perfect combination of the two in Alix E.
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