Book review ~ Witches, Wenches and Wild Women of Rhode Island, M. E. Reilly-McGreen

An interesting book chronicling notable women in Rhode Island history,

Witches, Wenches and Wild Women of Rhode Island tells some well-known and some obscure stories, including:

• Anne Hutchinson, the woman who started a colony of separatists from the Puritan colony of Massachusetts. She and her followers founded the English settlement at Portsmouth.
• Evelyn Nesbit, an original Gibson girl and center of an early 20th century scandal.
• Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, American socialite and suffragette, co-designer of Marble House in Newport.

And perhaps a dozen more accused witches, bitches, vampires, pariahs, poets, heroes and ghosts. It's a quick read, written in an ironic, winking style.