![]() ![]() These are the ghosts of former employees at Bly: a valet and a previous governess. What initially seems a pastoral idyll soon turns harrowing, as she becomes convinced that the children are consorting with a pair of malevolent spirits. Its unnamed narrator is a young woman, a parson’s daughter, who is engaged as governess to two angelic children at Bly, a remote English country house. Cogdon-in the home.Īn eerie prefiguring of this scenario occurs in “The Turn of the Screw,” which was published in 1898. But there was no assailant-other than Mrs. ![]() Cogdon went after him with a six-pound axe, in the process bludgeoning her daughter to death. On the night of August 11th, she was visited by a nightmare in which her beloved daughter was set upon by a Korean assailant. Cogdon, who was later judged a “hysterical type” by court psychologists, had a habit of sleepwalking. ![]() People naturally feared an expanded Pacific conflict-a bloody replaying of the Second World War. The outbreak of the war in Korea had rattled Australian nerves. ![]()
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