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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20071230
Author:Katie Owen

EDITH WHARTON

BY HERMIONE LEE

VINTAGE, pounds 10.99

Edith Wharton was banned

by her mother from reading novels until after she was married. Conventional and stifling, Wharton's wealthy milieu of 'old' New York in

the 1860s and 1870s was also under threat from social and economic upheavals. Hermione Lee's fascinating and authoritative biography shows that despite her having spent most of her adult life in France, this background tension was key to Wharton's fiction. This is a book rich

in colour (Wharton's close friendships with cultural figures including Henry James are well detailed) yet ...

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