What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books

by Sheila Liming

Book Overview

Examining the personal library and the making of self

When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in modern America, focusing on Wharton...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517907047
• ISBN13: 9781517907044
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"