![]() ![]() Knox is a powerful wizard and member of the Congregation. Peter Knox Here is Owen Teale as Peter Knox - not pictured in brown tweed, sadly. She also works alongside Knox after the discovery of Ashmole 782. Gillian Chamberlain You may recognize actress Louise Brealey from 'Sherlock', but here she is as a witch called Gillian.Ī witch and a classicist from Bryn Mawr, Gillian is keen for Diana to embrace her sisters and powers and join the local coven in Oxford. Emily is her partner, a children’s librarian and a witch too. Sarah is Diana’s fiercely protective aunt, who acted as her guardian and raised her from a young age. ![]() Sarah Bishop and Emily Mather Alex Kingston portrays Diana's aunt, Sarah Valarie Pettiford is her partner, Em. Due to her exceptional witchcraft pedigree, Diana holds gifts that she is only just about to discover. She is a descendant of Bridget Bishop, who was executed during the Salem witch trials. She is reluctant to use her powers as a witch after rejecting her magical heritage following her parents’ deaths when she was seven years old. Diana Bishop Teresa Palmer as Diana Bishop in 'A Discovery of Witches'.Ī talented academic researching 17th-century alchemy at Oxford, Diana has gained tenure at Yale young. WITCHESĬharms, spells, potions, mind-reading and precognition are all possible for witches, although many tend to have leanings towards one or two gifts over the others. Want to know more? Read on for a human’s guide to the characters of A Discovery of Witches. Here, at the prestigious Bodleian Library, Diana Bishop stumbles across a curious manuscript, Ashmole 782, which attracts the interest of many of her fellow magical beings, including the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, and sets her on a path of discovery and danger, which will take her far beyond her faculty at Oxford. What distinguishes this fantasy universe from others is real-life professor Harkness’s decision to immerse her story in the academic sphere at the University of Oxford. This also means strictly no inter-species mingling. The Congregation, a committee of representatives from each of the magical races, protects everyone by ensuring no supernatural being attracts the attention of humans. Living silently alongside humans, around one in ten people is a magical being. ![]() Based on the popular novel by Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches is the first book in the All Souls Trilogy - so there’s plenty of material to mine if this eight-part drama is well-received.Ī Discovery of Witches deals with, yes, witches, but also incorporates other supernatural beings, including vampires and daemons. Those words welcome you to the world of A Discovery of Witches, which has just made its television debut in the UK and will be available via streaming services in the US at a later date. She has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships, and her most recent scholarly work is The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution.SPOILER ALERT: Warning, this article contains links that contain spoilers from the All Souls novel trilogy which may appear in the screen adaptation. Harkness has published scholarly articles on topics such as the influence of theatrical conventions on the occult sciences, scientific households, female medical practice in early modern London, medical curiosity, and the influence of accounting practices on scientific record keeping. She is currently a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she teaches European history and the history of science. Having spent more than a quarter of a century as a student and scholar of history, Harkness holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Northwestern University, and the University of California at Davis. The popular television adaptation of A Discovery of Witches, starring Theresa Palmer and Matthew Goode, was released in 2019 by Sky/Sundance Now, and also broadcast on AMC. The All Souls series has been translated in thirty-eight languages. The first book in Harkness’s beloved All Souls series, A Discovery of Witches, was an instant New York Times bestseller and the series has since expanded with the addition of subsequent NYT bestsellers, Shadow of Night (2012), The Book of Life (2014), and Time’s Convert (2018), as well as the companion reader, The World of All Souls. Deborah Harkness is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who draws on her expertise as an historian of science, medicine, and the history of the book to create rich narratives steeped in magical realism, historical curiosity, and deeply human questions about what it is that makes us who we are. ![]()
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