What a library means to a woman : Edith Wharton and the will to collect books / Sheila Liming.
"This book makes a claim for the centrality of libraries to the mythos of self-making in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American culture, focusing on Edith Wharton as its primary case in point. Wharton was never formally educated; rather, her private library collection, portions of...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020] Ã2020 |
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