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Threats of correspondence: the letters of Edith Wharton, Zona Gale, and Willa Cather.

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From: Studies in American Fiction
Date: 19970922
Author:Williams, Deborah

A discussion from the letters Edith Wharton and Willa Cather wrote to Zona Gale emerges on why these women writers placed an importance on remaining separated from other women writers. Their reasons are in part due to a shared belief that if associated together, the community of spirit would no longer view them as individuals.

In 1922, Edith Wharton's good friend and long-time correspondent Sara Norton died, leaving behind a Wharton who felt lonely and out of place in the post-war world, despite her recent Pulitzer Prize and the record earnings of her books. To some degree, of course, ...

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