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...surface, Edith Wharton's life was very different. The society she selected included a host of American and European literary luminaries, who frequented dinner parties at her splendidly appointed homes and accompanied her on sight-seeing jaunts across the Continent. And yet the terrible aloneness of Wharton heroines like The House of Mirth's Lily Bart was their creator's as well; for, like Dickinson, Wharton imagined herself "as gazing out through the bars of a prison at the procession of life...
This vision of the female writer struggling to escape the prison of her soul is one of the dominant motifs of R.W.B Lewis's often masterful biography of Edith Wharton. Meticulously researched and infinitely detailed, Lewis's Edith Wharton depicts its subject as a vital and complex woman, haunted throughout her life by a dismally unsuccessful marriage, but taking her place nevertheless as one of the leading literary figures...
Lewis is at his best when he attempts to outline the workings of Wharton's inner life, dismantling with obvious pleasure Percy Lubbock's depiction of her in Portrait of Edith Wharton as overly haughty and repressed. The Wharton who emerges from this biography is, by contrast, a woman whose pride is most often a cover for shyness, and whose dormant sensuality is a force that merely awaits release by the right...
Just because this particular play is destined for the dustbin does not mean that a varied season containing such up coming plays as Bingo, by England's Edward Bond, about Shakespeare's final years back in Stratford; Abigail Adams, Second First Lady, by Edith Owen; and The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia, by Preston Jones, about a lunatic-fringe group from Texas, may not provide some aesthetic rewards. To take a risk is the regional theater's brand of courage...
...schools and later at the University of Illinois, Shanker was an active socialist who campaigned for Norman Thomas. In 1952 he became a city schoolteacher. But seven years later, he gave it up to become a full-time union organizer. On his rounds, he met a Queens teacher named Edith Gerber, whom he made a strike captain and later married ("I organized her," he says). They have three children, aged 10 to 13, and live in a split-level house in suburban Putnam County...