Self-Made Man
Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Edith Wharton’s Domestic Arrangements, 5 April 2007
“... grew up, Lucretia Jones’s small daughter dutifully replied (as she later recorded it): ‘The best-dressed woman in New York.’ This is not the sort of ambition James Wood had in mind when he recently suggested in the LRB (4 January) that we owe half of English literature to the aspirant mother. Of course, those sensitive and ambitious women are usually ... ”