5.24: The Lottery
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Librarian Note
First published on June 26, 1948 in The New Yorker.
Read her obituary from the New York Times.
Secondary sources
Reference entry on The Lottery
Ferri, Jessica. “You’re Probably Misreading ‘The Lottery.’” The Daily Beast. 30 Nov. 2015.
A Reading of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”. This article was first published in the New Orleans Review , vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring 1985), pp. 27-32
“Shirley Jackson and the Female Gothic” by Amy Shearn. JSTOR Daily. September 29, 2016