Sarah Pardee Winchester (1839 - 1922) was a woman of extremes. One of the wealthiest women in Gilded Age America, she was powerless to save her husband and only child. Once a fixture of Connecticut high society, she moved alone 3,000 miles to rural California, spending nearly 40 years as a recluse, building a mansion so bizarre that even today it draws millions of visitors from around the world. In this chapbook, you'll meet the enigmatic woman behind the Winchester Mystery House and explore the key to her complex psyche, the very windows in her world-famous house.