Lot's wife Lot's wife In the Bible, Lot's wife is a figure first mentioned in . The Book of Genesis describes how she became a pillar of salt after she looked back at Sodom. She is not named in the Bible but is called "Ado" or "Edith" in some Jewish traditions. She is also referred to in the deuterocanonical books at and the New Testament at . Islamic accounts also talk about the wife of Prophet Lut (Lot) when mentioning 'People of Lut'. The story of Lot's wife begins in after two angels arrived in Sodom at eventide and were invited to
The Wife of His Youth The Wife of His Youth "The Wife of His Youth" is a short story by American author Charles W. Chesnutt, first published in July 1898. It later served as the title story of the collection "The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line". That book was first published in 1899, the same year Chesnutt published his short story collection "The Conjure Woman". "The Wife of His Youth" features an upwardly mobile, light-skinned mulatto man, a respected member of the Blue Veins Society in a Midwestern city. He is preparing to marry another light-skinned mulatto woman when a