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Emily Wharton Sinkler Papers

Emily Wharton Sinkler Papers

Emily Wharton Sinkler

Copies of letters written by Emily Wharton Sinkler (1823-1875) to her parents, Thomas Wharton (1791-1856) and Arabella Griffith (1800-1866), and other family members in Philadelphia regarding life with her husband, Charles Sinkler, on ...
Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton ...

Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton ...

Emily Wharton Sinkler

Sinkler, Anna Linton Thomson (November 5, 1823— November 9, 1873). Anna was married to Charles's younger brother and her own first cousin, William Henry Sinkler, on March 4, 1847. She had a beautiful voice, and together Emily and ...
Legacy of a Southern lady, Anna Calhoun Clemson, 1817-1875

Legacy of a Southern lady, Anna Calhoun Clemson, 1817-1875

Nancy Ann Russell

Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler 1842-1865 ( Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001), 1, 5-6. Ten months after Anna left "Stewarts," Emily Wharton Sinkler from Philadelphia, the nineteen-year- old ...
Belvidere: A Plantation Memory

Belvidere: A Plantation Memory

Anne Sinkler Fishburne

See Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842–1865, edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001), 138–56, for descriptions of life at the Belvidere and Eutaw ...
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[ reviews ] AN ANTEBELLUM PLANTATION HOUSEHOLD: INCLUDING THE SOUTH CAROLINA LOW COUNTRY RECEIPTS AND REMEDIES OF EMILY WHARTON SINKLER BY ANNE SINKLER WHALEY LECLERQ Columbia: University of ...
An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South ...

An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South ...

Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq

In writing An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South Carolina Low Country Receipts and Remedies of Emily Wharton Sinkler, I hoped to convey some of the fascination I experienced as I read the intimate writings of an intrepid,  ...
Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public ...

Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public ...

Mary Kelley

... on the family's plantation in Upper Saint John's Parish, South Carolina. We might have anticipated, as have some historians, that a woman in Emily Wharton Sinkler's circumstances had embarked on a life of isolation at Eutaw and Belvidere, ...
Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910

Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910

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Sinkler, Anna Linton Thomson (November 5, 1823–November 9, 1873). Anna was married to Charles Sinkler's younger brother and her own first cousin, William Henry Sinkler (1820–1856), on March 4, 1847. She was Lizzie's aunt. She had a ...
Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts

Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts

Emily J. Orlando

An insightful look at representations of women’s bodies and female authority. This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression.
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

Millicent Bell

This volume of essays offers fresh examinations of Wharton's fiction designed both to engage the interest of the student or general reader encountering Wharton for the first time, and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new ...
Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion

Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion

Katherine Joslin

am grateful to the curator of costumes and textiles, Phyllis Magidson, who has designed exhibits of the fashions described in Wharton's novels. David Dashiell, director of publications at the Edith Wharton Restoration, gave me good advice ...
Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit

Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit

Carol J. Singley

Focusing on Wharton's treatment of Anglicanism, Calvinism, Transcendentalism, and Catholicism, Carol Singley analyzes the short stories and seven novels in the light of religious and philosophical developments in Wharton's life and fiction.
Research Guide to American Literature

Research Guide to American Literature

Benjamin Franklin

Bibliography Helen Killoran, The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2001). Analyzes the evolution of the critical response to Wharton's writing. Criticism Harold Bloom, ed., Edith Wharton's The Age of ...
Amerikastudien

Amerikastudien

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Berlin Frank Mehring Helen Killoran, The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton ( Rochester, NY: Camden, 2001), 184 pp. The critical reception of Edith Wharton's work opens extremely interesting perspectives on canon formation. Wharton ...
Studies in American Humor

Studies in American Humor

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Helen Killoran, Edith Wharton: Art and Allusion. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1 995. See chapter one. 11. Adeline Tintner, "Edith Wharton and Paul Bourget," paper presented to the Edith Wharton Society, Washington, D.C., ...
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: Early ...

The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: Early ...

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... Kathy A Fedorko, Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton (1995); Carol Singley, Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (1995); Jenni Dyman, Lurking Feminism: The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (1996); Helen Killoran.
A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton

A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton

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Essays in the volume expand our sense of Wharton as a novelist of manners and demonstrate her engagement with issues of her day.
Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Hermione Lee

Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton

The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton

Helen Killoran

A fresh look at the plethora of literary criticism on Edith Wharton.
House Of Mirth

House Of Mirth

Janet Beer

In 2004, JennieA. Kassanoff published the first booklength studyof Wharton and race, takingasher starting pointthe critical 'neutralisation' ofEdith Wharton's conservative politics andher 'protection' by certain scholars from suggestions ofracist ...
Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race

Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race

Jennie A. Kassanoff

Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers

Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers

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Whitman, Wharton, and the Sexuality in Summer ABBY H. P. WERLOCK There is a fine line," said Edith Wharton after writing a poem in 1902, "between prose and poetry, and I do not yet think I have ever crossed it." In fact, as R. W. B. Lewis ...
Edith Wharton: Art and Allusion

Edith Wharton: Art and Allusion

Helen Killoran

This book uses traditional methods to show that Edith Wharton's learning in literature and the fine arts was unusually masterful, that she applied her knowledge to create new models of literary allusion, and that in her work she planted ...
Edith Wharton: The Contemporary Reviews

Edith Wharton: The Contemporary Reviews

James W. Tuttleton

This book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writing of Edith Wharton from the 1890s until her death in 1937.
Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation

Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation

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Nancy Bentley's The Ethnography of Manners (1995), Amy Kaplan's The Social Construction of American Realism (1988), and Jeannie Kassanoff's Edith Wharton and the Politics ofRace (2003) all approach Wharton's fiction as social practice ...
Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four ...

Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four ...

Juliana Schiesari

The term lurking feminism was rst applied to Wharton's work by Blake Nevius in his classic Edith Wharton: A Study of Her Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953), 185, and has been reenergized by Jenni Dyman in her Lurking ...
Victoriana

Victoriana

Emily Isaacson

Emily Isaacson. Copyright © Copyright 2015 The Emily Isaacson Institute. No part of this book may be reproduced, ... of the Emily Isaacson Institute P.O. Box 3366 Mission, B.C. Canada V2V 4J5 www.emilyisaacsoninstitute.com Dedicated to ...
Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference ...

Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference ...

Sharon Leiter

1858 spring: Emily writes first Master letter. c. June: First letter to Samuel Bowles, editor of Springfield Republican. First year of “flood creativity,” Emily writes 43 poems. Emily organizes her poems into the first booklets, or fascicles, a practice ...
Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare

Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare

Páraic Finnerty

Daneen Wardrop, '"The Ethiop Within: Emily Dickinson and Slavery," in Emily Dickinson at Home, Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Emily Dickinson International Society in South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College, 12-15 ...
Apart from Modernism: Edith Wharton, Politics, and Fiction ...

Apart from Modernism: Edith Wharton, Politics, and Fiction ...

Robin Peel

It locates Wharton in her period, surrounded as she was by discourses which called for political and social change, change which an outlook that Peel calls "American Toryism" made her reluctant to embrace.

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