Edith Wharton's Lenox
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1467135178 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Super fun and revealing snapshot of Berkshire history Super fun and revealing snapshot of Berkshire history! Fascinating to read about the impact the Berkshires had on Edith Wharton, and vice versa.. for any devoted Wharton fan but also anyone who has for any devoted Wharton fan but also anyone who has any interest in gentry Berkshire life of early 20th century or for anyone who has sense of family summer with all its intricacies, pleasures and complications.
In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. But her perceptive and sometimes indiscreet pen also alienated potent figures like Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and Georgiana Welles Sargent. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. As a hostess, designer, gardener and writer, Wharton set high standards that delighted many, including Ambassador Joseph Choate and sculptor Daniel Chester French. She and her husband, Teddy, planned a defiantly classical villa, and she became a bestselling author with The House of Mirth in 1905. Author Cornelia Brooke Gilder gives an insider's glimpse of the community's reaction to this disruptive star during her tumultuous Lenox decade.
A lifelong Berkshire resident, Cornelia Brooke Gilder was educated at Vassar College and Cambridge University. Jackson Jr., Houses of the Berkshires (Acanthus Press, 2006, revised edition 2011) and The Lenox Club: A Sesquicentennial History (2014). . She also wrote Hawthorne's Lenox (with Julia C
She grew up in Lenox and has lived in Tyringham since her marriage to George Gilder forty years ago. She also wrote Hawthorne's Lenox (with Julia Conklin Peters), published by The History Press in 2008. Jackson Jr., Houses of the Berkshires (Acanthus Press, 2006, revised edition 2011) and The Lenox Club: A Sesquicentennial History (2014). Among her books on Berkshire history are two co-authored with Richard S. . About the Author A lifelong Berkshire resident, Cornelia Brooke Gilder was educated at Vassar College and Cambridge University