# The House Without Windows — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett.

- [The House Without Windows And Eepersip’s Life There](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_house_without_windows_se/chapters/the-house-without-windows.md): Eepersip lives in a house without windows, feeling trapped and longing for the natural world outside. She spends her days in a meadow, finding freedom and connection with nature, but must return to the oppressive home wh
- [I: The Meadow](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_house_without_windows_se/chapters/i-the-meadow.md): Eepersip spends a blissful summer in the meadow, playing with butterflies and her pets Snowflake and Chippy, and feeling a deep connection to nature. She later runs away to the wild, befriends a doe and fawn, discards he
- [II: The Sea](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_house_without_windows_se/chapters/ii-the-sea.md): Eepersip returns to the sea and lives near the cottage, wearing a mermaid dress of seaweeds. She explores the shoreline, swims, and watches the waves. After a long swim, she lands on a different shore where she meets a l
- [III: The Mountains](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_house_without_windows_se/chapters/iii-the-mountains.md): Eepersip, now living wild, devises a plan to entice her little sister Fleuriss away from home using flowers, ferns, and fairy-like displays. She hides in a lilac bush, leaves apple-blossoms on Fleuriss's bed, and is thri
- [Historical Note](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_house_without_windows_se/chapters/historical-note.md): Barbara Newhall Follett's father, Wilson Follett, provides a detailed account of the creation and revision of the story of Eepersip. He explains how the nine-year-old Barbara wrote the original draft, lost it in a fire, 
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_house_without_windows_se/chapters/endnotes.md): The endnotes provide supplementary details, including a description of the cordary berry and a note on the author's favorite childhood books.

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