Edith Wharton at Home : Life at The Mount / Richard Guy Wilson ; Foreword by Pauline C. Metcalf ; Photographs by John Arthur.

By: Wilson, Richard Guy, 1940-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : The Monacelli Press, [2012]Edition: First editionDescription: 187 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781580933285; 1580933289Subject(s): Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Lenox | Mount, The (Lenox, Mass.) | Lenox (Mass.) -- Biography | ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Residential | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary | DESIGN -- Interior Decorating | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 | Mount, The (Lenox, Mass.) | Homes | Massachusetts -- LenoxGenre/Form: Biography.DDC classification: 974.4/1 LOC classification: PS3545.H16 | .W57 2012Other classification: ARC003000 | BIO007000 | DES010000
Contents:
Foreword / Pauline C. Metcalf -- Finding her way -- Designing and building The Mount -- Life at The Mount -- Afterward.
Summary: "At once a leader and a recorder of the glamorous Gilded Age society, Edith Wharton is at the pinnacle of American literature and social history. The Mount, her summer "cottage" in the Berkshires, was essential to her success, filled with gatherings of literary figures and artists, and this book documents the story of her life there"-- Provided by publisher.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Books Books Female Library
PS3545.H16 .W57 2012 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) 1 Available STACKS 51952000206262

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"At once a leader and a recorder of the glamorous Gilded Age society, Edith Wharton is at the pinnacle of American literature and social history. The Mount, her summer "cottage" in the Berkshires, was essential to her success, filled with gatherings of literary figures and artists, and this book documents the story of her life there"-- Provided by publisher.

Foreword / Pauline C. Metcalf -- Finding her way -- Designing and building The Mount -- Life at The Mount -- Afterward.

2

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.