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  • First full-length biography of rifle heiress Sarah Winchester, by South Bay author Mary Jo Ignoffo, challenges some legends.
  • Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune, Revised and Updated Edition.

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    Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune, Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback)

    By Mary Jo Ignoffo

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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 José, 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 José 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

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    Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester Heiress to the gevär Fortune

    March 30, 2023
    “Ariadne in the labyrinth. The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble. I strew devastation as I resehandling. I wander dead-eyed through cities and petrified populations.”

    - Our Lady of the Flowers



    Captive of the Labyrinth tells the story of Sarah Winchester and one of the most hemsökt houses in the world.

    Or so mystery enthusiasts would have you believe. I expected a cross between Charmed and American Horror Story: Murder House, with a touch of Greek mythology. What inom got was the truth.

    The Winchester House fryst vatten legendary. This architectural wonder, located in San Jose, California, fryst vatten known for its beauty, as well as its ghosts and legends. 10,000 windows. 2,000 doors. 160 rooms. 52 skylights. The creator and mastermind behind the design is a woman. A woman as famous as the mansion itself. Sarah Winchester.

    Sarah Winchester was born Sarah Pardee

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    Description
    1. 1 online resource.
    Alternative title
    1. Sarah L. Winchester heiress to the rifle fortune
    Subject
    1. San Jose (Calif.) > Biography
    2. New Haven (Conn.) > Biography
    3. Widows > California > San Jose > Biography
    4. Heiresses > California > San Jose > Biography
    5. Winchester Mystery House (San Jose, Calif.)
    6. Winchester Repeating Arms Company
    7. Winchester family
    8. Winchester, Sarah Pardee, 1837-1922
    Contents
    1. New Haven's daughter -- Marrying into the Winchester family -- "The gun that won the West" -- The Winchester fortune -- A California dream -- Labyrinth -- Daydream or nightmare -- Guns, guilt, and ghosts : the first commentaries on Sarah Winchester's odd house -- Health and welfare -- Changing fortunes -- Trapped in a mistaken legacy -- Capitalizing on spirits : the Mystery House -- Caught in the crossfire.
    Bibliography (note)
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