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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20070515
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Byline: Yvonne Zipp

Lily Bart, heroine of "The House of Mirth," was able to parse New York society, but the knowledge couldn't save her. Not so her creator, Edith Wharton, who famously turned her reading of upper-class 19th-century New York into a brilliant career.

"Lily acts out a parallel - but much less successful - version of her author's professional career," writes Hermione Lee in Edith Wharton, her authoritative new biography of the writer. But "she is always losing her opportunities, because she cannot quite turn herself into a commodity."

Wharton, as Lee ...

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