An Invitation to Celebrate 100 Years of The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton called it her “Big Novel,” and her biographer Hermione Lee calls it her “greatest book.” The Custom of …
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That moment when you’re revising obsessively and it feels like “an attack of scrupulosis”…
“I can’t tell any longer whether I’m really improving it, or only undergoing an attack of scrupulosis.” Edith Wharton wrote …
A Reading of Austen’s Lady Susan in Halifax, NS
“Manwaring is more devoted to me than ever; & were he at liberty, I doubt if I could resist even …
Happy 100th Anniversary to Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country!
January 2013 marks 100 years since the first installment of Edith Wharton’s “Big Novel” The Custom of the Country was …
Jane Austen on Sex, Money, and Power
Several essays from this year’s fabulous JASNA AGM in New York (“Sex, Money and Power in Jane Austen’s Fiction”) are …
“The books were too valuable to be taken down”
I had so much fun during the discussion that followed my paper on Austen and Wharton at the JASNA AGM …
Happy Birthday to Edith Wharton!
Today is Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday, and I’m thinking about ways to celebrate, in addition to rereading her work. There’s a short …
Austen and Wharton on Sunday
This Sunday, March 6th, I’ll be speaking on Jane Austen and Edith Wharton at a meeting of the Nova Scotia …
French Fact and American Fiction
I’ve been thinking recently about Edith Wharton’s use of place names in The Custom of the Country. It’s interesting that …
