No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton

Shari Benstock

Published by University of Texas Press 2004

No Gifts from Chance

A Biography of Edith Wharton

Shari Benstock

In the series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series

https://doi.org/10.7560/702745

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About this book

The first new biography of America's foremost woman of letters in twenty years, No Gifts from Chance presents an Edith Wharton for our times. Far from the emotionally withdrawn and neurasthenic victim of earlier portraits, she is revealed here as an ambitious, disciplined, and self-determined woman who fashioned life to her own desires. Drawing on government records, legal and medical documents, and recently opened collections of Wharton's letters, Shari Benstock's biography offers new information on what have been called the key mysteries of her life: the question of her paternity, her troubled relations with her mother and older brothers, her marriage to manic-depressive Teddy Wharton, and her extramarital affair with Morton Fullerton.

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Shari Benstock is Professor of English at the University of Miami (Florida).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Prefacee Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgmentss Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
BOOK I THE OLD ORDER
Chapter 1 A Question of Heritage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Explorations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 3 Endeavors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
BOOK II CHOICES
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Chapter 5 Estrangements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Chapter 6 Departures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
BOOK III REWARDS
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Chapter 9 Losses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	396
Chapter 10 Loyalties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	444
Archives and Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Chronology of Works by Edith Wharton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	468
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 575
Illustrations
- Other: 43 b&w photos

eBook

Published: December 4, 2008
ISBN: 9780292748965