Elizabeth Gaskell 
Lois The Witch 

Elizabeth Gaskell is a prominent figure in Victorian literature. ’Lois the witch’ (1861) is a story from gloomy implications. Lois, was recently orphaned, is forced to leave the rectory where English lives and leaves for America for have a new life at some of his distant relatives. The protagonist is a girl honest, simple, with strong Catholic values that fit the new context and soon finds discord and malice in his new home, so much so that, in that place, the words of an ancient curse will come back to haunt her. …