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

Sheila Liming
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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 The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal li

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Date
29 May 2020
Pages
272
ISBN
9781517907037

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 The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal li

Read More
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Date
29 May 2020
Pages
272
ISBN
9781517907037

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