Tales from the Dead of Night by Cecily Gayford

Author:Cecily Gayford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

[It will be said, perhaps, and not unjustly, that this is no more than a variation on a former story of mine called ‘The Mezzotint’. I can only hope that there is enough of variation in the setting to make the repetition of the motif tolerable.]

EDITH WHARTON

(1862–1937)

Edith Wharton (née Jones) was born into a wealthy New York family, a branch of which inspired the phrase ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. Wharton’s childhood was not a happy one, however, and she wrote that, as a bookish child, her parents ‘regard[ed] me with fear, like some pale predestined child who disappears at night to dance with “the little people”’. This impression may have been enhanced by Wharton’s susceptibility to the supernatural; convalescing from an attack of typhoid, she read a ‘tale of robbers and ghosts’ which affected her so greatly that she relapsed and, when she came to, ‘it was to enter a world haunted by formless horrors’ which lasted for ‘some seven or eight years’. In later life she became one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, an interior decorator and landscape architect and an intrepid traveller. ‘Pomegranate Seeds’ refers to the Greek myth of Persephone. Tricked by her abductor Hades, god of the underworld, into consuming three seeds, she was doomed to remain with him for a portion of each year.

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