This 1962 novel is being reappraised by critics and fans as a creeping meditation on 1950s housewives, agoraphobia, and good old-fashioned New England persecution.
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Additional Resources:
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson – a house of ordinary horror
- The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson
- Flavorwire Author Club: Shirley Jackson’s Haunting Final Novel, ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’
- SILVER, M. (2013). Is It Real? On Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Southern Review, 49(4), 665–667.
- Savoy, E. (2017). Between as if and is : On Shirley Jackson. Women’s Studies, 46(8), 827.
- BOYD TONKIN. (2015, July 29). Her dark materials: how Shirley Jackson became the ‘sorceress at the sink.’ Independent (UK).
- Shirley Jackson. (2020). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1.
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle: A Prelude to a Myth
- How ‘We Have Always Lived In The Castle’ By Shirley Jackson Novel Made Me Love Horror — Even Though I Hate Being Scared
- The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson
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