The Conjure Woman (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- First Published: 1899
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Post-Civil War
- Setting: North Carolina
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Annie, Uncle Julius, Aunt Peggy
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people
- Locales: North Carolina
The Story:
When the Narrator’s wife began to suffer ill effects from the severe Great Lakes climate, he began to look for a suitable place to take her. He had been engaged in grape culture in Ohio, and when he learned of a small North Carolina town that seemed to offer what he needed in climate and suitable land, he decided to buy an old, dilapidated plantation and settle there. An untended vineyard was already on the property; with a little care and expense, the vines would flourish once more. On the day that he took his wife, Annie, to look at the plantation, they happened...
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