Three years after leaving home, Louisa encounters Paul, a neighbor from Rockville, in Chandler. On the anniversary of her disappearance, she hears her mother's voice on the radio, asking her to return home. Peacock, and while intending to sign up for a secretary course, she winds up getting a good job at a stationery store instead. Louisa finds a nice room in a rooming house, befriending its owner, Mrs. She travels on a bus and a train before arriving at Chandler, one of the biggest cities in the state, where she blends in as an average girl, taking up the false identity of "Lois Taylor". She had been planning to leave for a while, and had put a lot of thought into her disappearance. Set in the 1950s, 19-year-old Louisa Tether leaves her Rockville family home the day before her sister Carol's wedding. Background īiographers believe this short story - along with "The Missing Girl" - is inspired by the seven people who disappeared in the woods around Bennington, Vermont between 19, near where Shirley Jackson lived from 1945 until her death. The story often appears as set work in high school English classes.
It has since been reprinted in the collections Come Along with Me (1968), Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (edited by Sarah Weinman, 2013) and Dark Tales (2016).
" Louisa, Please Come Home" is a short story by Shirley Jackson first published in 1960 in May's edition of Ladies Home Journal entitled " Louisa, Please".
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