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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart

Esther, novel by Henry Adams , published in 1884 under the pseudonym Frances Snow Compton . The character of the heroine is modeled on the author's wife, and that of Wharton on the sculptor Saint-Gaudens.

Esther Dudley, a young painter, is introduced to Stephen Hazard, preacher at St. John's in New York City, whom she at first dislikes because he is absorbed in religious work, while she shares the free-thinking of her invalid father. When Esther is commissioned to work on the decoration at St. John's, under the direction of the prominent artist Wharton, she uses as a model her friend ...

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