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Novelist Edith Wharton's Gilded Age

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19971010
Author:Hank Burchard

NOVELIST Edith Wharton is the very model of the poor little rich girl. Born with a silver spoon in her mouth that gagged and choked her, she fought her way free of the shackles of Victorian society to become world-famous and enviably independent.

The life of this leading woman of American letters is celebrated in a sumptuous but somewhat melancholy exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. The Gilded Age milieu in which Wharton (1862-1937) moved, while marvelously portrayed in the show, seems flat and sour, like stale champagne.

The exhibition includes portraits and paintings by, ...

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