Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem witch trials) Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, that after the witch trials Elizabeth moved from Salem to Gloucester in Massachusetts. On October 27, 1711, she married John Bennett, with whom she had four children. Norton cites her basis on a published marriage record of a woman named Elizabeth Hibbert and a man named John Bennett, that later on produced four children. However, it is not confirmed that Elizabeth Hibbert is in fact Elizabeth Hubbard; there are records of multiple women having the name of Elizabeth Hubbard or variations of it, existing in the area at the time. Elizabeth’s adult life and ultimately, her
Feminist interpretations of the Early Modern witch trials Feminist interpretations of the Early Modern witch trials Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, various feminist interpretations of the witch trials have been made and published. One of the earliest individuals to do so was the American Matilda Joslyn Gage, a writer who was deeply involved in the first-wave feminist movement for women's suffrage. In 1893, she published the book "Woman, Church and State", which was "written in a tearing hurry and in time snatched from a political activism which left no space for original research." Likely influenced by the works of Jules Michelet about the Witch-Cult, she claimed that