Jessamy
- by Barbara Sleigh
- Novel
- Fantasy
- Children
- Undetermined Time Travel
- English
- Jessamy by Barbara Sleigh (Bobbs-Merrill, 1967).
Visiting with the caretaker of an empty old mansion, orphaned Jessamy emerges from the nursery closet into the world of 1914 when her namesake lived in the same house and left her adventures and a mystery to be solved again in the present.
—from publicity material
Somehow I’ve become another Jessamy in a different time! It must be a different time because of the clothes. Nobody wears long skirts like Matchett and Aunt now—I mean that—oh, I don’t know what I mean!
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: past time period
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: starting time period
- Timeline Models
- Single Consistent Timeline: The story has a slight feel of a static time line regarding the lost book and the measuring marks, although the time model is not a focus.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Booths, Wardrobes, et al.: The travel happens only in the cupboard on the days written by the height marks.
- Themes
- Mind Travel: 1960s Jessamy slips into 1914/15 Jessamy.
Variants
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- Jessamy by Barbara Sleigh (Bobbs-Merrill, 1967).
Translations
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- German.
Der Spuk im alten Schrank by Barbara Sleigh (Rascher, 1968).