By day, amiably disguised as an embattled mother, she devotes her artful talents to the real-life confusions of the four small children ( Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons) in her Vermont household.īut when shadows fall and the little ones are safely tucked in, Author Jackson pulls down the deadly nightshade and is off. “Shirley Jackson is a kind of Virginia Werewoolf among the séance-fiction writers. She did the same, though in a completely different way, in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, her last completed novel. In Shirley Jackson’s The Sundialand The Haunting of Hill House, she used an old house as a brooding, malign presence in the novel, almost a character in its own right. This analysis of We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962), Shirley Jackson’s last novel, has a special emphasis on Mary Katherine (Merricat), the younger of the Blackwood sisters central to the story.Įxcerpted from Girls in Bloom: Coming of Age in the Mid 20th Century Woman’s Novel by Francis Booth, reprinted by permission.
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