The narrator recounts almost with two voices: the mature voice looking back from the future, and the developing voice experiencing everything as it happens. While the long denouement disappoints in how Lady’s story is more told than shown, it fits another theme of the novel: gathering the truth from pieces dropped over the years. These characters have their own limited perspectives, even when commenting on others’ limited perspectives, and their expectations and biases fuel the plot. Solitude is not loneliness, as the novel takes time to explain.Įven what sounds like trite advice or observations comes across as true to what the characters would say in each particular instance. Most of the widows and older unmarried women continue onward with fulfilling lives. What I noticed while reading this and The Other is how Tryon writes a variety of female characters with their own temperaments and goals and inner lives. Lady herself is both entrancing enough for the narrator’s infatuation and human enough to act as a breathing being. Lady sweeps the reader into this world with lovely description, with understandings forming and shattering as the seasons unfurl. What the book does share with Tryon’s more horror-inclined books such as The Other and Harvest Home is its imagined New England setting. Despite being marketed as a ghost story, Lady’s drama keeps to the realm of human mysteries and guilt. The narrator’s devoted friendship with Lady develops throughout his childhood, adolescence, and service in World War II. Starting in the era of the Great Depression, Thomas Tryon’s novel observes Lady through the eyes of a young admirer. Enigmatic but not aloof, she’s a gracious presence in her Connecticut community - at least, when not homebound during her “ retirements.” What truly haunts the woman called “Lady?” Photograph dated June 27, 1956.įormat 1 photographic print :b&w 26 x 21 cm.Pequot Landing is a place of small-town peace and prejudice, a fine place for children to grow with dreams of future escape. Adelaide Harleigh, elegant widow of an heir to fortune, lives quietly with her servants Jesse and Elthea in a grand house on the Green. The location is unknown and there is no further information given. Please see the Ordering & Use page at for additional information.ĭescription Photograph shows actor Tom Tryon embracing his wife Ann Noyes, as they both look toward the photographer. Images available for reproduction and use.
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo FriendsĬollection Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Title Tom Tryon and wife Alternative Title Valley Times Photo CollectionĬontributor This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S.
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