William de Morgan – författare

Potter-turned-novelist William de Morgan began writing Joseph Vance; An Ill Written Autobiography while he was living in Florence. He was despondent over the bankruptcy of his pottery business and in ill-health when he undertook this wildly romantic story. Enormously popular when first published, it’s a classic of American literature.

When Ghost Meets Ghost is a captivating story of identical twin sisters, each of whom believes the other is dead, until coincidence reunites them. The ghosts are the faint memories and images each has of the other. The sisters’ attempt to recognize one another as the young women they once knew presents a saddening challenge.

In a remarkable series of events, a nameless man strikes up a friendship with a young woman and—while with her—loses his memory from an electric shock. She takes him to her mother’s house where her mother realizes the man is the husband who left her twenty years earlier. As the title implies, there is a happy ending to this charming story.