Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence , and New York’s Gilded Age
"Edith Wharton: a life in books": a public lecture by Professor Janet Beer
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In her first lecture for Oxford Brookes University as Vice-Chancellor, Professor Janet Beer talks about the life and works of American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937).
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