Embattled tendencies: Wharton, Woolf and the nature of Modernism
Edith Wharton eyed Bloomsbury as an intellectually remote and morally murky world, admiring only one of its members, Lytton Strachey. After Mary Berenson urged her to read Virginia Woolf’sOrlandoin 1928, Wharton responded viscerally to the advertising photographs of Woolf, claiming the images made h...
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