Sweet Ermengarde

Sweet Ermengarde

"Sweet Ermengarde" is a short comic story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was probably written between 1919 and 1921; Lovecraft scholars state it is "the only work of fiction by HPL that cannot be dated with precision." [S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, "Sweet Ermengrade", "An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia", pp. 257-258.] It was first published in the Arkham House collection "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" (1943).

ynopsis

The story is a parody of romantic melodrama, centering on Ermengarde Stubbs and her relationships with villainous mortgage-holder 'Squire Hardman, would-be rescuer Jack Manly and fiance Algernon Reginald Jones. Daniel Harms calls it "a take-off on the Horatio Alger 'rags-to-riches' genre". [Daniel Harms, [http://www.angelfire.com/space2/pyrkium/Lovecraft/020_TSOU_Sweet_Ermengarde.htm "Sweet Ermengarde"] , "The Shadow over Usenet".] "An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia" suggests that a more precise target for Lovecraft's satire was writer Fred Jackson, whose novels often "have exactly the sort of implausibility of plot and sentimentality of action that is parodied in 'Sweet Ermengarde'." [Joshi and Schultz, p. 258.]

Reaction

"An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia" describes the story as one of Lovecraft's "comic gems". [Joshi and Schultz, p. 258.] Harms describes it as "actually quite funny at places." [Harms, [http://www.angelfire.com/space2/pyrkium/Lovecraft/020_TSOU_Sweet_Ermengarde.htm "Sweet Ermengarde"] .]

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