Conjure Wife [SEP] publisher
." P. Schuyler Miller described it as "one of those classics we talk about so glibly," despite finding the denouement less effective than the setup. "New York Times" reviewer Basil Davenport noted it was marked by "real excitement."
Everett F. Bleiler found "Conjure Wife" to be "nicely handled as a suspense story, although Saylor's psychology is a little simplistic."
Publication.
"Conjure Wife" was originally published in the April 1943 volume of "Unknown Worlds". An
racial injustice took them to a different level. Seven of the Uncle Julius tales were collected in "The Conjure Woman". Chesnutt wrote a total of fourteen Uncle Julius tales, the remainder of which were later collected in "The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales", edited by Richard H. Brodhead and published posthumously in 1993.
In 1899 Chesnutt published his "The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line", a collection of short stories in the realist vein. He explored many themes that