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The Mount In Bloom.

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From: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
Date: 20070706
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Byline: Deborah Hornblow

Jul. 6--Edith Wharton's enduring love affair with Italian gardens began in childhood. The girl named Edith Newbold Jones was only 4 when her family began a six-year grand tour of Europe.

"She never forgot the early sunny, violet-scented days of Rome," writes Vivian Russell, author of "Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens" (Frances Lincoln, $45).

In Wharton's own writings, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author makes it clear she cherished those childhood memories.

"Through the 'trailing clouds of infancy' she remembered her year in Rome as one of ...

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