Bridget's Girl: The Oliver Inheritance

By Stephen Ango OliverArts Books

Bridget's Girl: The Oliver Inheritance episodes

October 30 Book One · Part Five: The Eighth Part of a Penny
Spring and summer 1670. Gossip has a price in Salem, and it turns out to be very small. A paper appears on the table that nobody saw arrive.

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9 min
October 30 Book One · Part Four: Ten Stripes or the Fine
Winter 1670. The Olivers are summoned to court for quarreling, and Bridget gets a choice between the whip and the fine. She pays in silver nobody knew she had.

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10 min
October 30 Book One · Part Three: A Stormy House
Winter 1668. Four shillings, a thrown ladle, and a fight that spills into the lane where everyone can hear it. Somebody is keeping track.

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9 min
October 30 Book One · Part Two: Let Them Choke on That
Autumn 1666. Bridget is carrying a child and bargaining with God about it, and the neighbors have started watching.

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9 min
October 30 Book One · Part One: No Ring for a Puritan
Salem Town, July 1666. A widow just off the boat marries a loud wharfman, and insists on a ring the town thinks no good Puritan should wear.

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8 min
October 30 Book One · Prologue: The Tenth of June
June 10, 1692. A cart, a crowd, and a girl at the rail with a gold ring on her finger. This is where it ends, so we start here.

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9 min

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On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop was the first person hanged in the Salem witch trials. Nobody was burned.