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Object |
Book |
Title |
Life among the savages |
Author |
Jackson, Shirley |
Subjects |
Authors, American Authors, American 20th century Biography Biographies Biography Jackson, Shirley 1916-1965 |
Publisher |
Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc. |
Published Date |
1953 |
Published Place |
New York |
Summary |
Humorous essays, partly fictional, about the life of a faculty spouse, the mother of four children, in a Vermont town |
Physical Description |
241 pages ; 22 cm, dust jacket |
Information |
Though best-known as an author of gothic fiction, Jackson published dozens and dozens of extremely funny semi-autobiographical stories, many of which were originally published in popular magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day and Collier's. In the mid-1950s these stories were collected into two books, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, that together form a semi-fictionalized account of the day-to-day life of Jackson’s family in the village of North Bennington. The neo-classical home fronted by four columns on the cover of Life Among the Savages is a stylized depiction of the Jackson-Hyman family’s first home in North Bennington, on Prospect Street, where they lived from 1945 to 1950. |
People |
Jackson, Shirley |
Credit line |
Gift of Laurence Jackson Hyman |
Catalog Number |
2023.1.88 |