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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19931013
Author:Jan Freeman, Globe Staff

She may not have shown them off much in her lifetime, but she's got legs, that Edith Wharton. Hollywood movies based on her novels, new editions of a late unfinished novel and an early unpublished one, a New Yorker cartoon celebrating her bestsellerdom -- and now a cover story in Vogue (October), which doesn't deign to notice just any old dead lady novelist. Wharton, though, was rich, designer-dressed and blessed (from the pop-culture point of view) with a complicated sex life, offering former fashion writer Kennedy Fraser a wealth of Vogue-appropriate material. Much of the history comes from ...

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