Edith Wharton
Our image of the woman who is America's most famous Victorian novelist has been severely jolted, if not irrevocably changed. The decorous, gently satirical bluestocking proves to be a far less conventional person than her earlier biographers have led us to believe.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Collier Books
- Year
- 1975
- ISBN-13
- 9780671699659
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Edith Wharton's lifeAmerican literatureVictorian era novelist
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1976)
Other awarded books from R. W. B. Lewis
- Edith Wharton: A Biography
- Trials of the Word: Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition
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