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She is the Puritan minister's daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet-natured.to those who think. She is a wild child: herb gatherer and healer, spell-weaver and midwife.and, some say, a witch. Set during the tumultuous era of the English Civil War, The Minister's Daughter is a spellbinding page-turner - stunning historical fiction that captures the superstition, passion, madness, and magic of a vanished age. So mote it be.' Conceived on May Morning, Nell is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own.

And all signs point to Nell as the source of the trouble. The minister is convinced his daughters are the victims of witchcraft. Julie Hearn was born in Abingdon, England, near Oxford, and has been writing all her life. The ministers daughters have taken to their bed, howling and spitting. Yet their fates collide when Grace and her younger sister, Patience, are suddenly spitting pins, struck with fits, and speaking in fevered tongues. The Minister’s Daughter book by Julie Hearn Teen & Young Adult Books > Teen Historical Fiction Books Calico Joe by Julie Hearn See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.19 - 4.69 Paperback 3.99 - 8.69 Library Binding - Audio CD - Select Condition Like New 4.79 Very Good 8.69 Good 4.19 Acceptable 3. A merrybegot and a minister's daughter - two girls who could not have less in common. But she is hiding a secret - a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light. She is the Puritan minister's daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet-natured.to those who think they know her. When one of the ministers daughters falls pregnant, she and her sister attempt to conceal it by accusing Nell of putting a curse on them.

So mote it be."e Conceived on May Morning, Nell is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own.