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Below you will find a reading list for Anne Rice's The Lives of the Mayfair Witches (1990/1994) trilogy and adjacent.
Resources
Here you’ll find everything from story context to resources on issues faced by our "witches"…
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Further reading
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. — Petyr Van Abel, The Witching Hour (1990), by Anne Rice
History & historiography in "The Lives of The Mayfair Witches"
- Haitian Vodou
- European "Witch" hunts; a history
- Haitian Revolution (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
- Haitian Revolution (Wikipedia)
- Capital R Romanticism
- Lord Byron (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Lord Byron
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
- Index of Lord Byron (project Gutenberg)
- Denis Diderot's Encyclopédia
- Rousseau
- Voltaire
Non Exhaustive Podcast List
Viewer discretion is advised (nonfiction)
'It's no devil,' I said. 'And why do you say that?' she asked again, as if we hadn't discussed this before. 'Because, I said, 'the Devil has more important things to do if he exists at all, and on the point of his existence at all I am not certain. 'Where did you get an idea there was no Devil?' 'Rousseau,' I said. 'His philosophy argues that the worst evil is in man.' — Julien Mayfair to Marie Claudette Mayfair (Lasher) The Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice (1993)
- Marion Gibson (historian)
- Witchland: A Deadly Moral Panic in 17th Century Britain
- Witchland (StoryGraph)
- Witchfinders (StoryGraph)
- Marlene L. Daut, Awakening the ashes: an intellectual history of the Haitian Revolution
- C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins
- Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
- The Code Noire, 1685
- The Code Noire, slavery and the French Revolution
- Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White
- How The Irish Became White (StoryGraph)
- Julia Gaffield, I Have Avenged America
- The Haitian Revolution
- Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
- Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
- Frederick Douglas
- Lord George Byron
- Vincent Woodard & Dwight McBride, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
- The Delactable Negro (Storygraph)
- Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692
- Old Times on the Upper Mississippi by George Byron Merrick
- The United States and the Haitian Revolution
- Ron Chernow, Grant
- Antisemitism Education by the Jewitches
- Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
- world history resources folder
- world history resources list
- philosophy folder
- Esoterica
- Atun-Shei Films
- New Orleans History
