However, it was not Kytler, but her servant Petronelle de Midia, who ended up being tortured and confessing to witchcraft. “I think it’s important to retrieve people, especially women, from history,” Boyce says. “When I started writing first, I thought I was going to write something very racy and very contemporary,” she laughs. It’s written in memory of her, and women like her.”Who are these women “like her”? “I guess I was really thinking of women who are sacrificed so that the male establishment can maintain their own illusions.

Source: The Irish Times April 04, 2019 05:15 UTC