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1. sites.middlebury.edu › 2019 › 09by Shirley Jackson - Middlebury College

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   by Shirley Jackson. The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in some towns there were so many people that the ...

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2. www.gale.com › binaries › contentFAST FACTS - Gale

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   FAST FACTS Author's Works and Themes: Shirley Jackson ““Author's Works and Themes: Shirley Jackson.” Gale, 2019, www.gale.com. Writings by Shirley Jackson • The Road through the Wall (novel) 1948 • The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris (short stories) 1949 • Hangsaman (novel) 1951 • Life among the Savages (nonfiction ...

3. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2016/10/17The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson | The New Yorker

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   Oct 10, 2016 · Zoë Heller on Ruth Franklin’s biography of Shirley Jackson, “A Rather Haunted Life,” which explores one of the twentieth century’s most tortured writers.

4. literariness.org › 2020/04/24 › analysis-of-shirleyAnalysis of Shirley Jackson’s Stories – Literary Theory and ...

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   Apr 24, 2020 · Shirley Jackson’s (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) stories seem to center on a single concern: Almost every story is about a protagonist’s discovering or failing to discover or successfully ignoring an alternate way of perceiving a set of circumstances or the world.

5. www.enotes.com › topics › lotteryThe Lottery Teaching Guide - eNotes.com

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   PDF Cite. So you’re going to teach Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” Whether it’s your first or hundredth time, Shirley Jackson’s short story has been a mainstay of English classrooms...

6. blogs.ubc.ca › files › 2015“The Possibility of Evil” Shirley Jackson

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   “The Possibility of Evil” Shirley Jackson. Miss Adela Strangeworth stepped daintily along Main Street on her way to the grocery. The sun was shining, the air was fresh and clear after the night’s heavy rain, and everything in Miss Strangeworth’s little town looked washed and bright.

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   Did Shirley Jackson win an Edgar Award?

   • In 1966 she won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for her short story “The Possibilities of Evil.” Examine the life, times, and work of Shirley Jackson through detailed author biographies on eNotes.

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   Is Shirley Jackson a 'lottery'?

   • Shirley Jackson's name brings to most people's minds two words: “The Lottery.” This darkly ironic story has been sparking controversy since it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, when hundreds of people wrote letters in response.

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   Who was Shirley Hardie Jackson?

   • On December 14, 1916, Shirley Hardie Jackson was born to an affluent family in San Francisco. As soon as she learned to write, she began to pen poems, eventually winning a poetry contest at age twelve. In 1933, her family moved east to Rochester, New York, where Shirley went to high school and then on to the University of Rochester.

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   What was Jackson's life like?

   • Jackson’s adult life was ostensibly a rebellion against her mother and her mother’s values. She became a writer; she grew fat; she married a Jewish intellectual, Stanley Edgar Hyman, and ran a bohemian household in which she dyed the mashed potatoes green when she felt like it.

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   Was Shirley Jackson a 'Virginia werewoolf'?

   • Shirley Jackson did all of these things, and, during her lifetime, was largely dismissed as a talented purveyor of high-toned horror stories—“Virginia Werewoolf,” as one critic put it. For most of the fifty-one years since her death, that reputation has stuck.

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   How did Shirley Jackson die?

   • She was, however, too ill to attend the ceremony. On August 8, Jackson died in her bed of heart failure. Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14, 1919. She later moved with her family to Rochester, New York, and eventually attended the University of Rochester.

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   Examine the life, times, and work of Shirley Jackson through detailed author biographies on eNotes.