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The Turn of the Screw appeared in a number of ways during James’s lifetime and this has an impact on both the writing and the reading. The first publication was in installments in Collier’s Weekly from January 27–April 16, 1898. There is not as much control by the author of the textual environment with the serial format as in a single book publication (of course, the extratextual environment in which real readers through time or in different places and circumstances read the work is entirely outside of authorial control).
The reader never learns what the letter from the school actually says; the governess hands it to Mrs. Grose to read and then we find the housekeeper is illiterate. The governess is about to read it to her but does not. Instead she summarizes and then makes an unspoken leap of inference: “They go into no particulars. They simply express their regret that it should be impossible to keep him. ” (TotS 2: 33–4). Mrs. ” She doesn’t ask Miles directly but he has convinced her by his goodness there could be no truth to whatever it was “the stupid sordid head-masters” vindictively charged.
Grose appeared to try to be conscientious. ” Again she considered. “Well, Miss—she’s gone. ” I don’t know what there was in the brevity of Mrs. Grose’s that struck me as ambiguous. ” Mrs. Grose looked 31 JAMES’S THE TURN OF THE SCREW straight out of the window. . ” “She was not taken ill, so far as appeared, in this house. She left it, at the end of the year, to go home. . But our young lady never came back. . ” I turned this over. ” (TotS 2: 36) The governess’ interpretation of Mrs. ” What are the tales she won’t tell?