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Louis Auchincloss reinvents Edith Wharton's "After Holbein."

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From: Studies in Short Fiction
Date: 19960322
Author:Tintner, Adeline R.

Louis Auchincloss used Edith Wharton as the model for three women writers in three of his stories. Auchincloss's 'The Partners' contains a section crafted after Wharton's 1930 collection of stories, 'Certain People.' He rescued the story's best part to embellish his tale. He incorporated Wharton's "After Holbein" into his own "danse macabre."

In addition to his use of Edith Wharton as the model for each of the three women writers in three of his stories,(1) Louis Auchincloss, who has written a formal biography of her, also has made at least one raid on her fiction. In The Partners ...

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