Winifred Duke

Compared to Charlotte Brontë during her lifetime, Winifred Duke (1890-1962) was a prolific author, writing both fiction and books on Scottish history and the legal system from the early 1920s through to the mid-1950s. By the late 1940s, though, she’d become fascinated by the way that eras entwined, and how the effects of something that happened in the past could still echo loudly – and devastatingly – in the present, themes she explores in both 1948’s The Black Mirror and Dirge for a Dead Witch, which was published the following year.