Bly

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Bly is the remote English country estate that serves as the primary setting of Henry James's novella "The Turn of the Screw."

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Bly canonical 7
Bly Manor 1
Bly estate 1

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Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional country estate
literary setting
appearsIn The Turn of the Screw
associatedWithGenre Gothic fiction
ghost story
country England
createdBy Henry James
describedAs isolated
remote
firstAppearance The Turn of the Screw
firstPublicationYear 1898
hasBuildingType country house
hasFeature garden
grounds
lake
large house
tower
hasFormerResident Miss Jessel
Peter Quint
hasResident Flora
Miles
Mrs. Grose
the unnamed governess
languageOfWork English
locatedIn English countryside
narrativeFunction site of supernatural occurrences
space of psychological ambiguity
narrativeRole primary setting of The Turn of the Screw
ownedBy the children’s uncle
workOriginCountry United Kingdom

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Miles livesAt Bly
Flora residesAt Bly
Peter Quint setting Bly estate
linked to: Bly
Miss Jessel residence Bly
Miss Jessel haunts Bly
The Haunting of Bly Manor settingLocation Bly Manor
linked to: Bly
Robert Bly familyName Bly