new england

In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.

Beigh Masters, tracking a legendary diamond in the mid-twentieth century, comes across a record of the travels of her ancestor Hannah Easton, an American woman who flaunted Puritan society to become the white lover of a Hindu raja, and is drawn into the story of that distant life.

Mary misses her life and friends in Ireland and is sad that her family cannot celebrate Thanksgiving Day the way their New England neighbors do, until her parents share a story of the Pilgrims' first harvest festival.

Chronicles the humorous and sentimental fortunes of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.

Contains the story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer who is married to a hypochondriac, but in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie; and includes the novella "The Touchstone," and three additional short stories by Edith Wharton.

Chronicles the experiences of the thousands of women who left New England farm towns to work in the textile cities that sprang up in the region in the early nineteenth century.

Looks at the technological changes that transformed the making of cloth, which became a key component of the Industrial Revolution that swept across Europe and America in the late 18th century. Includes an animated story that centers on a small New England community similar to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the first textile mill in America was established.