Heiresses of Wharton’s Era in Fashion on Her 150th Birthday
As the popular television series “Downton Abbey” proves, stories of Americans mingling with members of the British aristocracy titillate as much as they did when Edith Wharton wrote of them. Jan. 24 is the 150th anniversary of her birth.
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 19 January, 2012
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