Molly Northcott Author

Molly Northcott received her PhD at the University of New England, Australia. Her current research focusses on the different roles children played in early modern English and New English witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ever since studying early modern witch-hunting as an undergraduate at UNE in 2017, Northcott has become fascinated by the subject. Her research interests focus on witchcraft trials in England and New England as well as issues and questions of youth, gender, motivation, agency and fraud.