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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20070429
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EDITH WHARTON

By Hermione Lee

Knopf. 869 pp. $35 But the things about herself that Wharton was most determined to hide -- details of her divorce, for instance, or her love affair with the intriguing Morton Fullerton, or her long friendships with Henry James and Walter Berry -- have turned out mostly to her credit, as they become known. And her work, once synonymous with dated, Jamesian propriety, upon re-examination is bold, insightful and passionate on some formerly taboo topics such as female sexuality and rebelliousness, something her readers perhaps always understood.

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