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Edith Wharton's renaissance.(Arts)(Art)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19980118
Author:Shaw-Eagle, Joanna

There's no accounting for swings in taste. Consider Edith Wharton, in 1921 the first American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Enormously popular in her day, her writings had fallen out of fashion when R.W.B. Lewis began researching his biography of her in the 1960s.

Now, there's an Edith Wharton renaissance, of which the exhibition "Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places" at the National Portrait Gallery is an important expression. Through this showing of some 100 paintings, miniatures, manuscripts and memorabilia, the visitor - for one more week ...

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