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- Wharton, Edith
- Massachusetts
- Lenox (Mass.)
"In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox . . . . her perceptive and sometimes indiscreet pen also alienated potent figured 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." -- Page 4 of cover.
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"In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox . . . . her perceptive and sometimes indiscreet pen also alienated potent figured 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." -- Page 4 of cover.
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