Book

The Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton

1913

Charles Scribner's Sons

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Edith Wharton.

Why Do Women Want?: Edith Wharton’s Present Tense

"The Custom of the Country" and its unique relationship with ideas of feminism and the culture of the early 20th century elite.

by Sarah Blackwood via The Paris Review on November 1, 2022

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“The Marriage of Convenience,” 1883, by William Quiller Orchardson, depicting a bored young woman and an older man at opposite ends of a long dining room table.

How To Lose a Guy in the Gilded Age

Uncovering the resort where rich women sought the elusive right to divorce

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