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The Wishing-Well

Maud Lindsay & Emilie Poulsson

First published August 1936
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

  • Perhaps written by Lindsay alone (below)
  • Published as "The Nurse's Tale: The Wishing-Well" in the American children's monthly St. Nicholas 45.3 (January 1918), p.202-04 (target e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library, HDL). Here "The Wishing-Well" is the only prose story, following three verses, in the first serial part of The Joyous Travelers, which begins under the heading: The Joyous Travelers. Verses by Emilie Poulsson and Stories by Maud Lindsay (p200).
  • Published as "The Nurse's Tale: The Wishing-Well" in Lindsay and Poulsson, The Joyous Travelers (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, June 1919), p15-21; {{LCCN|19-9661}}, which links e-copy at HDL. The title page does not distinguish the co-authors, but the numbered list of 37 contents appears under the three-line heading "Contents // Verses by Emilie Poulsson // Stories by Maud Lindsay."
  • Both the 1918 serial and the 1919 book are illustrated by W. M. Berger.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1936 Cover Ghosts and Goblins: Stories for Hallowe'en and Other Times E. P. Dutton Anthology |202
September 1965 Cover Ghosts and Goblins: Stories for Halloween E. P. Dutton Anthology 166
December 1973 Cover Ghosts and Goblins: Stories for Halloween E. P. Dutton Anthology 166