72 pp. Brick color boards with gilt decor, all edges gilt. Illustrated with engravings. In 1857 Whittier wrote an early version of "Mabel Martin" called "The Witch's Daughter." It was published in the Era and consisted of what was later to be Parts II-V of "Mabel Martin." The story was a fictional account of the marriage of Ezekiel Worthen (Handen in the poem) and Hannah Martin (Mabel in the poem), step-daughter of Susanna Martin of Amesbury who was hanged for a witch in 1692. Actually Ezekiel Worthen married Hannah Martin in 1661, thirty-one years before Susanna's trial and execution.In 1874 Whittier's publishers suggested an illustrated edition of "The Witch's Daughter" and he agreed to add some eighty lines which would be "full of pictures."
