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Vendela Vida writes fiction about women whose lives are disrupted by violence: her first novel, And Now You Can Go (2003), begins, “It was 2:15 in the afternoon of December 2 when a man holding a gun approached me in Riverside Park.” And her characters often face crises of identity. After her father dies, Clarissa journeys to Lapland in search of her mother and her real father’s identity ( Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, 2007). Yvonne, a newly widowed woman in the early stages of grief, returns to the Turkish village where she spent her honeymoon ( The Lovers, 2010). Vida’s tone is lighter, sometimes tender, in her sixth novel. ....
Undine Spraggâs Life in Objects Undine Spraggâs Life in Objects Beauty, charm and luck all factor into the social ascent of Edith Whartonâs ambitious protagonist â but money, crucially, matters the most. Mrs. Sidney Smith, P. A. Clark, Mrs. James T. Burden, Stanford White, James Henry Smith, Norman Whitehouse, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Sidney Smith (seated) at the 1905 James Hazen Hyde costume ball.Credit.Byron Company/The Museum of the City of New York/Art Resource, NY By Samuel Rutter This article is part of Tâs to R.S.V.P. to a virtual conversation, led by Claire Messud, about âThe Custom of the Country,â to be held on Jan. 28. ....
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 mi ....