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SHIRLEY JACKSON Life and Work hirley Jackson was born on December 14, 1919 to Leslie and Geraldine Jackson. ... Two years after Shirley was born, her family with her newborn brother moved from San Francisco to Burlingame, California, about thirty miles away. "According to her mother, Shirley began to compose verse almost as soon as she could write it" (Friedman, 18). As a child, Shirley was interested in sports and literature. In 1930, a year before she attended Burlingame High School, Shirley began writing poetry and short stories. Jackson enrolled in the liberal arts program at the University of Rochester in 1934. ... For the next year Shirley worked night and day on her writing. ... After a year of becoming conscientious and disciplined writer, Jackson thought she better return to college for more schooling. ... For the next two years, while at Syracuse, Shirley published, fifteen pieces in campus magazines and became fiction editor of "The Syracusan", a campus humor magazine. ... Later, Jackson was always to refer to Brown as her mentor; and in 1959 she dedicated her novel "The Haunting of Hill House" to him.(Oppenheimer, 45) But in the summer of 1940, since Jackson and Hyman were graduating, it was announced the "The Spectre" had been discontinued. "Apparently hard feelings on the part of school authorities lasted for quite some time and may have been one of the reasons why neither Miss Jackson, even after becoming a successful author, nor Mr. ... "(Friedman, 26) In 1940, after their graduation Hyman and Jackson, who had a relationship, were married. While living in Vermont, Jackson continued to write. ... " Between 1945 and 1947, Jackson was occupied with her first novel, "The Road Through the Wall. ... " The critics by that time, had decided that Shirely Jackson was a writer of much talent and uniqueness. Even though Jackson was raising four children while her husband went to work, she still found time to write. ... (Friedman, 29) During the 1950s, while her children were growing up, Jackson published at least forty-four short stories, six articles; two book-length family chronicles; one childrens nonfiction book; and four novels. ... During the summer when there were no speaking engagements, Miss Jackson enjoyed attending the races at Saratoga; otherwise, she remained at home where she was happiest and felt the safest. A year later Jackson had significant literary success with the publication of her notable "ghost story", "The Haunting of Hill House", which was dedicated to her mentor Leonard Brown. ... Through the years, Miss Jackson had gained a great deal of weight. ... "Later, in 1965, daily living was now becoming more bearable for Jackson. ... On the afternoon of August 8, 1965, Shirley Jackson went upstairs to take her usual nap. However, this time, Jackson did not awake." (Friedman, 40) In 1966, Jacksons husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman edited an anthology, "The Magic of Shirley Jackson containing eleven short stories and three complete books. ... Since this novel was published in 1968, three years after Jackson passed away, Mr. ... Primary Works Shirley Jackson has been a very prolific author. In all, Jackson has published, three articles, four works of non-fiction prose, two family books, seven novels, one play, one work of poetry, and more than fifty-five short stories. ... "Life Among the Savages"(1953) and "Raising Demons"(1957) are both about family life in a small New England town, which is where Shirley Jackson lived with her husband and children until her death last year. ... Here Jackson questions the traditional definition of normality, suggesting that the villagers violence is deviant behavior, while Merrricats actions are prompted by a psychological disturbance that should evoke sympathy and understanding. ... Secondary Criticism Over the years many critics have wrote articles on Shirley Jacksons numerous work. ... " (259) Critic Peter Kosenko explains that Jackson distinguishes male and female authority early in the story by showing how the children listen to their fathers orders, but not their mothers: (225) "Soon the women. ... Jackson gives very plain, solid-sounding names to her characters: Adams, Warner, Dunbar, Martin, Hutchinson, etc. ... Miss Jackson does not offer us much hope-they only talk of giving up the lottery in the north village. ... (107) The second work of Jackson that most literary critics comment on is her novel "We Have Always Lived in a Castle". Literary critic, Granville Hicks wrote that, "We Have Always Lived in a Castle" showed Jackson at her most skillful, making the not quite credible as real as this typewriter of mine. It also suggests, perhaps a little more ruefully than was customary with Miss Jackson, some desperate truths about mankind"(31). "Miss Jackson was certainly not the first writer to assert that there is evil in everybody, but what might be merely a platitude becomes a great truth because of the depth and consistency of her own feeling about life and because she was so extraordinarily successful in making her readers feel what she felt. ... Literary critic Charlotte Jackson explains how successfully Jackson wrote non-fiction prose in her work, "Witchcraft of Salem Village". |
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