The white witch of Rosehall de DE LISSER, Herbert G

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Humanity Press, 1982-12-31. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good, nice condition. Book is flat and clean.

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Jamaica: MacMillan Caribbean, 1988. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. some very minor shelf wear, some very minor wear to corners and edges, a very good tight clean copy, Robert Rutherford is sent to the West Indies in the 19th century to learn the planters business from the bottom... and there he meets Mrs Palmer - whose last three husbands all died in curious circumstances.

Kingston ON: Macmillan Caribbean., 1986 Book. Near Fine. Pbk. Reprint.. A very striking and curious story, founded on fact, of the West Indies of the early nineteenth century. Robert Rutherford is sent to the Islands to learn the planter's business from the bottom. He becomes an overseer at Rosehall, the property of a young widow, Mrs Palmer, whose three husbands have all died in curious circumstances. She takes a violent fancy to Rutherford, who is also embarrassed by the attentions of his half-caste housekeeper, Millicent. His housekeeper is urging him, with some success, to fall in with West Indian habits, when Mrs Palmer arrives. Millicent defies her and threatens her with the powers of Takoo, an Obeah man. Mrs Palmer, herself skilled in Obeah magic, puts a spell on the girl, which Takoo's rites, shattered by the white woman's stronger magic, are powerless to remove. de Lisser utilizes the conventions of a romantic entanglement to investigate and debate the wider socio-political issues… Leer más

A love triangle develops among Annie Palmer, the white planter; Robert Rutherford, the Englishman; and Millicent, the mulatto girl.