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Object |
Magazine |
Title |
The magazine of fantasy and science fiction |
Publisher |
Fantasy House |
Published Date |
1957 |
Published Place |
New York, NY |
Summary |
Volume 13, number 6. Contains short story by Shirley Jackson, "The Missing Girl" inspired by the disappearance of Bennington College student Paula Weldon. |
Physical Description |
61 pages; 23 cm. |
Information |
Paula Jean Welden, an 18-year-old student at Bennington College, was the most well-known and publicized of the missing persons associated with what is now known as the Bennington Triangle, disappearing on the afternoon of December 1, 1946, never to be seen again. Not a thread of physical evidence was ever recovered, despite extensive, weeks-long searches. Shirley Jackson was living and working in North Bennington, and her husband, Stanley Hyman, was teaching at the College at the time of Welden's disappearance. The case gripped the community. Jackson's short story, "The Missing Girl," the title inspired by a headline in the Bennington Banner after Welden's disappearance, was written in about 1950 and first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in December 1957. The story tells of a young student disappearing from a New England summer school, leaving the reader to wonder whether she really ever existed at all. |
People |
Jackson, Shirley Weldon, Paula |
Catalog Number |
RL2023.902 |