Mark Twain in German-Language Newspapers and Periodicals

Mrs McWilliams and the Lightning

"Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning" (1880) is the second of three McWilliams family stories which appeared between 1875 and 1882. It first appeared in the September 1880 issue of the Atlantic Monthly and was republished in the collections The Stolen White Elephant (1882) and The American Claimant and Other Stories (1897). The narratives depict events from Clemens's personal life in Hartford. For this text, it is important to note that Olivia, his wife, had a notable fear of lightning. For more information on the McWilliams family stories see Rasmussen, vol. 1, 2007. Translations of the story appeared frequently in newspapers and periodicals in Germany.
 

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