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From: The Spectator
Date: 20070127
Author:Mount, Ferdinand

EDITH WHARTON by Hermione Lee Chatto, £25, pp. 854, ISBN 9780701166656 . £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655

There is no getting away from it, Edith Wharton was grand.

It never occurred to her to spare expense. On her honeymoon cruise, she and her feckless husband Teddy chartered a 333ton steam yacht with a crew of 16. When they settled down at 884 Park Avenue, they bought the house next door to accommodate their staff. The famous house she and Teddy built at Lenox, Massachusetts, The Mount -- 'a delicate French château mirrored in a Massachusetts pond', as Henry James called it -- ...

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