Edith Wharton's Lenox

Edith Wharton's Lenox
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9781467135177
ISBN-13 : 1467135178
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Book Synopsis Edith Wharton's Lenox by : Cornelia Brooke Gilder

Download or read book Edith Wharton's Lenox written by Cornelia Brooke Gilder and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. She and her husband, Teddy, planned a defiantly classical villa, and she became a bestselling author with The House of Mirth in 1905. As a hostess, designer, gardener and writer, Wharton set high standards that delighted many, including Ambassador Joseph Choate and sculptor Daniel Chester French. But her perceptive and sometimes indiscreet pen also alienated potent figures like Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and Georgiana Welles Sargent. Author Cornelia Brooke Gilder gives an insider's glimpse of the community's reaction to this disruptive star during her tumultuous Lenox decade.


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