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Mary Katherine Blackwood is the main character in Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The eighteen-year-old " Merricat " lives with her remaining family members, Constance and Julian Blackwood, on an estate in Vermont.
Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood 18-year-old Merricat is the youngest surviving member of the Blackwood family and the narrator of the novel. When she was twelve, her parents, aunt and younger brother died after being poisoned at dinner. Merricat is the only Blackwood who ventures into town to collect library books and buy groceries.
18-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood lives on the family estate with her older sister Constance and their ailing uncle Julian. Constance has not left the house in the six years since she was tried and acquitted of the death of her parents by poisoning. Every Tuesday, Merricat goes to the village to shop while the villagers harass her.
Mary Katherine Linaker, birth name of Kay Linaker (1913–2008), ... Mary Katherine Blackwood, in Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle;
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Come Along with Me is a posthumous collection of works by American writer Shirley Jackson.It contains the incomplete titular novel, on which Jackson was working at the time of her death, three lectures delivered by Jackson, and sixteen short stories, mostly in the gothic genre, including Jackson's best known work, "The Lottery".
"Louisa, Please Come Home" is a short story by Shirley Jackson first published in 1960 in May's edition of Ladies Home Journal entitled "Louisa, Please". [1] [2] It has since been reprinted in the collections Come Along with Me (1968), [3] Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (edited by Sarah Weinman, 2013) [4] and Dark Tales (2016).