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...late husband, New York Senator and Governor Herbert H. Lehman, was a Williams man, class of 1899, and so Edith Altschul Lehman, 75, gave the college $1,250,000 in his memory-largest personal gift in the school's 171-year history...
...Edith Green, Oregon Congresswoman -Pub. Affairs D. The right to change her mind is a right that every man has long granted to every woman. Her right to change the minds of men is equally ancient but less frequently acknowledged...
Actually, there had been two watersheds-the Civil War being the first. It was after the Civil War that industrial money-"brazen new money," as Edith Newbold Jones Wharton called it -began to change the face of New York. Wharton was the first American novelist to use the breakup of preindustrial American society as the stuff of fiction-Sinclair Lewis, in recognition of the fact, dedicated Babbitt to her-but she was in some ways the last to understand it. Her best pre-World War I novels (The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country) were groping toward...
Daughter of an old Manhattan family, Edith Jones grew up believing that the universe was composed of a row of brownstones in New York, a street in Newport and the continent of Europe. A child in that society was taught "only two things: the modern languages and good manners. Now that I have lived to see both these branches of culture dispensed with, I perceive that there are worse systems of education...
...portrait of James seems incomplete, it is because Edith Wharton was a lady, and there are things a lady never tells. She makes no mention, for instance, of how unhappy her marriage was (her husband, said a friend, was "more an equerry than an equal") or how it ended after 28 years in divorce when her husband was finally declared insane and Henry James counseled her to "continue making the movements of life." And although she mentions a Washington lawyer named Walter Berry as a valued friend and literary adviser, she never hints that she was in love with...