Columbia. 2022. September 2022. University of Missouri Press. 1st Printing of This Revised and Updated Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780826222701. 63 illustrations. 304 pages. paperback. keywords: Biography America Women. DESCRIPTION - It is in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Sarah Winchester, the mysterious heiress of the Winchester Rifle Company, that we present this revised and updated edition of our best-selling title, Captive of the Labyrinth. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Winchester purchased a simple farmhouse in San Jose, California. She built additions to the house and continued construction for the next twenty years. When neighbors and the local press could not imagine her motivations for the structural changes, they invented fanciful ones of their own. People accused her of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction on her San Jose house was done to thwart death and appease the spirits of the great many people killed by the Winchester rifle. Mary Jo Ignoffo's definitive biography unearths the truth about this reclusive eccentric, revealing that Winchester was not a maddened spiritualist driven by remorse but an intelligent, articulate woman who sought to protect her privacy. The author takes readers through Winchester's several homes, explores her private life, and by excerpting from personal correspondence shows the widow's true priority was not dissipating her fortune on the mansion in San Jose but endowing a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, to eradicate the dread disease of tuberculosis, that had taken the life of her husband. This revised and updated edition features 27 new photographs as well as informative histories from San Jose residents with connections to the historic Winchester house. inventory #46999.

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Title: Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune - Revised and Updated Edition
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Publication Date: 2022
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0826222706
ISBN 13: 9780826222701
Binding: paperback
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good in Wrappers
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Captive of the Labyrinth is reissued here to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of rifle heiress Sarah L. Winchester in 1922. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Winchester purchased a simple farmhouse in San Jos�, California. She built additions to the house and continued construction for the next twenty years. When neighbors and the local press could not imagine her motivations, they invented fanciful ones of their own. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San Jos� house was done to thwart death and appease the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle.

Author and historian Mary Jo Ignoffo’s definitive biography unearths the truth about this reclusive eccentric, revealing that she was not a maddened spiritualist driven by remorse but an intelligent, articulate woman who sought to protect her private life amidst the chaos of her public existence and the social mores of the time. The author takes readers through Winchester’s several homes, explores her private life, and, by excerpting from personal correspondence, one learns the widow’s true priority was not dissipating her fortune on the mansion in San Jos� but endowing a hospital to eradicate a dread disease.

Sarah Winchester has been exploited for profit for over a century, but Captive of the Labyrinth finally puts to rest the myths about this American heiress, and, in the process, uncovers her true legacies.

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Mary Jo Ignoffo is an author and historian specializing in California and the West. She has written books and articles, curated historical museum exhibits, has been interviewed for documentary films and for podcasts airing in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. She is the author of Captive of the Labyrinth Sarah L. Winchester Heiress to the Rifle Fortune, La Verdad A Witness to the Salvadoran Martyrs and Gold Rush Politics. Ignoffo holds degrees from Santa Clara University and San Jose State University.

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