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Andalusia is the name of Southern American author Flannery O'Connor's rural Georgia estate. The estate is located in Baldwin County, Georgia, approximately northwest of Milledgeville. It comprises , including the house where O'Connor wrote some of her last and best-known fiction.〔(Andalusia, Home of Flannery O'Connor, Milledgeville, Georgia )〕 ==History== The land on which Andalusia was first built had in the mid-19th century been a working plantation of between 1,500 and 1,700 acres owned and operated by Joseph and Mary "Polly" Stovall.〔Kirk, Connie Ann. ''Critical Companion to Flannery O'Connor''. New York: Facts on Files, 2008: 314. ISBN 978-0-8160-6417-5〕 After Polly Stovall's death, the estate was purchased at a public auction by sometime mayor of Milledgveille, Nathan Hawkins, and later sold to Col. Thomas Johnson of Kentucky in 1870.〔 In 1951, Flannery O'Connor returned to her home state of Georgia, where she had grown up, after being diagnosed with a form of lupus. She first lived in the family home of her mother, Regina, on Greene Street in Milledgeville, then owned by her uncles Louis and Bernard Cline.〔Kirk, Connie Ann. ''Critical Companion to Flannery O'Connor''. New York: Facts on Files, 2008: 313. ISBN 978-0-8160-6417-5〕 There, she finished her manuscript for her novel ''Wise Blood'' and, with her health improving, she moved with her mother to Andalusia, then still a working farm.〔Rogers, Jonathan. ''The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor''. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012: 48. ISBN 978-1-59555-023-1〕 She had visited the home every summer in her childhood.〔Gordon, Sarah. ''A Literary Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia'' (Craig Amason, editor). University of Georgia Press, 2008: 19. 9780820327631〕 Her mother had jointly inherited the 544-acre property along with her brother Louis Cline from their uncle.〔Simpson, Melissa. ''Flannery O'Connor: A Biography''. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005: 80. ISBN 0-313-32999-0〕 O'Connor saw her time at Andalusia as a temporary place to restore her health, not as a permanent home, though her health still fluctuated. As she wrote to editor Robert Giroux, "I am up and around again now but won't be well enough to go back to Connecticut for some time."〔Rogers, Jonathan. ''The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor''. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012: 49–50. ISBN 978-1-59555-023-1〕 She hosted several visitors, including Jesuit priest Fr. James McCown, who became a close friend and spiritual mentor, and writer Katherine Anne Porter.〔Simpson, Melissa. ''Flannery O'Connor: A Biography''. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005: 28. ISBN 0-313-32999-0〕 Even so, she sometimes felt isolated from the active literary culture which she hoped to join and lamented the boredom of her life at the farm: "This season we have had three peachickens hatch and have killed one rattlesnake. Otherwise nothing goes on around here."〔Wood, Ralph C. ''Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South''. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eermands Publishing Co., 2004: 210. ISBN 0-8028-2999-6〕 Nevertheless, she found her experience there was an influence on her writing. The bulk of her life's work was written there and several of her short stories are set in the area, including "The Displaced Person", which scholars identify as the one which closest resembles the farm.〔Kirk, Connie Ann. ''Critical Companion to Flannery O'Connor''. New York: Facts on Files, 2008: 315. ISBN 978-0-8160-6417-5〕 She died at Andalusia in 1964. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andalusia (Milledgeville, Georgia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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