Edith Wharton’s Latest Biographer
August 2nd, 2007 by 
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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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September 19th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Let’s Hear It for the Ladies Who Brought Us the 19th Amendment and the Women’sVote!
Thanks to the success of the suffragettes, women have voices and choices!
Most people are totally in the dark about HOW the suffragettes won votes for women, and what life was REALLY like for women before they did.
Edith Wharton’s literary success and her war work played a major role in women winning the vote.
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