The Shadows on the Wall is a short story by author Mary E Wilkins. - AsNotedIn
She was elderly, tall, and harshly thin, with a hard colourlessness of face. She spoke not with acrimony, but with grave severity. Rebecca Ann Glynn, younger, stouter and rosy of face between her crinkling puffs of gray hair, gasped, by way of assent. She sat in a wide flounce of black silk in the corner of the sofa, and rolled terrified eyes from her sister Caroline to her sister Mrs Stephen Brigham, who had been Emma Glynn, the one beauty of the family. She was beautiful still, with a large, splendid, full-blown beauty; she filled a great rocking-chair with her superb bulk of femininity, and swayed gently back and forth, her black silks whispering and her black frills fluttering.
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1903/00/00 | Mary E Wilkins Freeman | Author | Mary E Wilkins's short story "The Shadows on the Wall" is included in her collection, The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural. |
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| Definition | Aquiline | like an eagle, hooked or curved nose like an eagle's beak | |
| Narrative Arts | Corpse, Dead Body | a human who has died, passed away | |
| Health | Dyspepsia | discomfort or pain that occurs in the upper abdomen, indigestion | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Disposition | Incongruity | not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something or out of keeping | |
| Belief | Incredulity | the state of being unwilling or unable to believe something | |
| Object | Inkstand | a tray for one or more ink bottles, typically holds pens | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Lighting | Oil Lamp | a hand held contain that burns oil as fuel to produce light, Oil lamp became economical with the discovery of whale oil. | |
| Architectural Feature | Parlor, Parlour | a reception or sitting room in a private house | |
| Definition | Peremptory | insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Attribute | Queer | strange, odd | |
| Art Type | Short Story | short form narrative fiction | |
| Narrative Arts | Speculative Fiction | a genre of fiction that encompasses works in which the setting is other than the real world, involving supernatural, futuristic, or other imagined elements | |
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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