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...EDITH WHARTON: A BIOGRAPHY...
...disappear with Melvillean inscrutability into the ceiling and are anchored somewhere high up in the attic. Two floors below, the skeletons of the leviathans are stretched out for the length of the exhibit room in static mimicry of their aquatic postures. The problem with the whale supports, says M. Edith Rutzmoser, who works out of the mammal department as curatorial associate, is that they get in the way when you're trying to move cases of specimens or open the venerable glass cases that are filled with racks of more specimens...
...Edith L. Finn Hagerstown...
...stiff than colloquial. Ironically enough, considering his awareness of the special problems Wharton faced as a woman writer, he sometimes allows his language to partake of sexual stereotyping. Describing two characters in her novel The Custom of the Country, for example, he writes: Marvell also, as it were, embodies Edith's feminine side; Moffatt her masculine side, her immense energy, her decisiveness in action, the vigor of her ironic humor. Later, he again refers to what he terms Wharton's "masculine vein of satiric humor...
Quibbling aside, Lewis's biography of Edith Wharton is important, in the first place, for its insistence on Wharton's full-bodied humanity, displayed in her "capacity for deep and abiding friendship" and her vulnerability to the losses that marked the course of her long and productive life. Edith Wharton stands as a testament to the creative powers of a woman for whom art and life were so intertwined that in her last reminiscences "the actualities of her experience, the men and women she had loved, seemed to her increasingly to be creatures of fiction, parts of some other narrative...