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How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/t-magazine/edith-wharton-custom-of-the-country.html The British Royal Family Sections How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? Published in 1913, “The Custom of the Country” follows the social rise of Undine Spragg, a fictional character who, in many ways, feels very modern. An undated photograph of Edith Wharton.Credit.Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University This essay is part of T’s (1913), like much that Edith Wharton wrote, can be described as a novel of manners. That’s to say, a social fiction in which the carefully observed customs of a particular society shape the characters’ actions and the plot. The designation somehow implies frivolity, or at least, traditionally, the feminine or domestic sphere (Jane Austen could be considered the first author of such works); and in this period of profound crisis in American society, it might seem easy to dismiss the r

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