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Editorial | Edith Wharton at 150

A bard of Western Mass.

  January 01, 2012

Massachusetts doesn’t lack for literary heroes, and doesn’t need to import any from New York. But it’s worth noting that Edith Wharton, who is most renowned for her lacerating insights into the New York upper classes, made her primary home in Massachusetts for the crucial years of her emergence as a writer. And a closer look at her oeuvre suggests that all those Wikipedia types may have been too quick to label her a bard of Manhattan society.

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