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First edition. Shirley Jackson's second and most autobiographical novel, largely set at a women's college inspired by Bennington, the elite liberal arts college in rural Vermont, where Jackson's husband taught for most of his career (Jackson had been a guest lecturer at Bennington in 1949). Hangsaman is the unsettling but gripping account of a young female student experiencing a breakdown during her first term at college. The 2020 film Shirley, starring Elizabeth Moss, is a fictionalized account of the writing of Hangsaman, depicting Jackson's preoccupation with Paula Welden, the student who disappeared from Bennington in 1946. Shirley Jackson's brand of literature is part of a tradition that can be traced back to the American Gothic work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James. Jackson's unique contribution to this genre is her focus on women's lives. Her work can be understood as the secret history of American women of her era. (source: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin) 280 pp. 8vo, original cloth, slight wear to spine ends; minor creasing to a few pages. Very good in good dust jacket (worn and chipped with some loss)
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