| List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction The Text of The Age of Innocence Background and Contexts AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BlOC RAPHY Letters To Rutger B. Jewett, January 5, 1920 To Bernard Berenson, December 12. 1920 To Mary Cadwalader Jones, February 17. 1921 To Sinclair Lewis. August 6. 1921 To Mary Cadwalader Jones, April 11, 1927 Candace Waid· [A Biographical Note on Edith Wharton] Edith Wharton· A Little Girl's New York Edith Wharton· From A Backward Glance[The Background] Little Girl R. W. B. Lewis· From Edith Wharton: A Biograph) [Entry into Society] [A Broken Engagement] [Marriage and Sexual Ignorance] Sources LArERARY SOURCES Honor6 de Balzac· From Contes drdlatiques Innocence The Danger of Being Too Innocent Edith Wharton· The Vallev of Childish Things, and Other Emblems Edith Wharton· The New Frenchwoman TIME AND MONEY: ECONOMIC CONTEXTS AND THE SHIFTING NARRATIVES OF ETHNIC POWER [The Source for the Beaufort Scandal] The Panic: Excitement in Wall Street· New York Times, September 19, 1873 The Financial Crisis: More Failures Yesterday· New York Times, September 20, 1873 Panics· The Nation, September 25, 1873 THE BUSINESS OF SOCIETY: CONTEMPORARY COMMENTARY ON THE NEW YORK ARISTOCRACY "Secrets of Ball Giving": A Chat with \Vard McAllister How He Came to Be a Famous Ball Organizer-- Reminiscences of Cotillion Dinners Beginning His Experience at Newdort Objects of the Patriarchs Society Duplicate Invitations Prevented Society's Limits Narrowing Famous Dinners of Recent Years Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Sherwood· From Manners and Social Usages Preface The Etiquette of Bails Fashionable Dancing [On Serving Roman Punch] [Recipes for Roman Punch] * From The Encyclopedia of Practical Cooker)' and Cooker)' and Housekeeping Francis W. Crowninshield· From Manners for the Metropolis: An Entrance Key to the Fantastic Life of the 400 Mrs. Burton Harrison· The Myth of the Four Hundred CHANGING MORES IN NEW NEW YORK: THE ROMANCE OF LEISURE AND THE SPECTER OF DIVORCE James Maurice Thompson * The Long Bow Clarence Satterlee· [The Living VCaxworks] Charles Dickens * From The Old Curiosity Shop John H. Young· The Language of Flowers Kate Greenaway * From Language of Flowers Divorce and Marriage in New-York * New York Tribune, October 7, 1883 Criticism REVIEWS: AMERICAN Katharine Perry· Were the Seventies Sinless? William Lyon Phelps· As Mrs. Wharton Sees Us Carl Van Doren· An Elder America Henry Seidel Canby· Our America R. D. Townsend· The Book Table: Devoted to Books and Their Makers, Novels Not for a Day Anonymous· Mrs. Wharton's Novel of Old New York Vernon L. Parrington, Jr.· Our Literary Aristocrat REVIEWS: BRITISH Anonymous· The Age of Innocence Anonymous· The Innocence of New York Katherine Mansfield * Family Portraits Frederick Watson· The Assurance of Art |
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