![]() ![]() Clearly, the ten-year-old Miles and the eight-year-old Flora must be protected. In life, scandalously, the two of them had been discharged as illicit lovers, and their spectral visitations with the children hint at Satanism and possible sexual abuse. 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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