Aunt Josephine's House
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| First mentioned | The Wide Window |
| Possessed by | Destroyed |
The home of Josephine Anwhistle is featured in The Wide Window, the third novel of the A Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket. The structure is built off the edge of a cliff, being held up by a series of stilts and struts. The home of Josephine Anwhistle is a somewhat small home. The main feature of the house is the wide window, the scene of a faked suicide, which provides a view of Lake Lachrymose. There is also a library that contains books only on grammar. Josephine Anwhistle considers grammar the greatest joy in life. The house has only two bed rooms. It also has a dining room, a kitchen and a living room. Although the building has electricity, gas, central heating and a telephone line, none of these are used due to Josephine's many phobias.
The house was later blown right off the cliff during Hurricane Herman.
It also mentions in Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography that the second half of a V.F.D. meeting manuscript is hidden in Ivan Lachrymose: Lake Explorer, under someone's bed. In The Wide Window, when the Baudelaire orphans are looking for an atlas under a bed in Aunt Josephine's house, one of the books under there is Ivan Lachrymose: Lake Explorer. This suggests that the manuscript is indeed hidden here. Plus in the Grim Grotto, Captin Widdershins said he and the crew of the Queequeg, saved books that were from the house that were being destroyed in Lake Lachrymose.
