Word: olenska
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Innocence. Here is Edith Wharton's story of the Countess Olenska, eloquently transferred to the stage by Margaret Ayer Barnes. The Countess Olenska returned to Manhattan, leaving her horrible Count in Europe. In Manhattan she met Newland Archer; they fell in love, but Newland married a girl to whom he was engaged. Newland Archer and the Countess nearly ran away together when the horrible Count crossed the ocean to retrieve her; but Newland's wife was too feeble for the Countess, who was sick of cruelties, to injure; so Countess Olenska returned to her Count and Newland Archer...