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As Edith Wharton’s latest and most recent biographer , Oxford English professor , Hermione Lee, notes “The Joneses were one of the largest , wealthiest and most socially prominent families of intermarried , network of mid nineteenth century New York. They were a patrician clan who had made their money through real estate, and who for generations , in a most distinguished way had nothing whatever remarkable”.

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