What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books by Sheila Liming

What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books

Sheila Liming

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

272 pages | first published 2020

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Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to...
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