Edith Wharton's Lenox (Hardback)
History Press Library Editions
Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography 226 pages English Jul 03, 2017
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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.
- Author:
- Cornelia Brooke Gilder
- Publisher:
- History Press Library Editions
- Publication Date:
- Jul 03, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 226 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
- ISBN-10:
- 1540216578
- ISBN-13:
- 9781540216571