Lola Edith
Always enjoyed her work (Here’s The Age of Innocence and House of Mirth) more than Lola Henry’s, but he is the Master (The Wings of the Dove).
Untidying the drawing-room
Edith Wharton may have repudiated the customs of her country, but it provided material for her masterpieces. Elaine Showalter reviews Hermione Lee’s biography
Saturday February 10, 2007
The Guardian
In her memoir, A Backward Glance (1934), Edith Wharton recalled her first attempts at writing when she was 11 years old. Her fledgling novel began: “Oh, how do you do, Mrs Brown? … If only I had known you were going to call I should have tidied up the drawing-room.” But when little Edith shyly offered it to her mother, the stately New York matron Lucretia Newbold Jones, the response was chilly and withering: “Drawing-rooms are always tidy.” (continues)
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