#edith wharton

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Diyarbakır Sağlık

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Edith Wharton, from "Afterward" in The Collected Early Short Stories

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Edith Wharton, from a letter to Morton Fullerton featured in The Selected Letters of Edith Wharton

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Kingsbury velvet gown, c.1870

Velvet, silk, floral lace, satin ribbon, petersham ribbon, tarlatan, baleen bones.

via madison historical society on flickr

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WINONA RYDER as MAY WELLAND

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993) dir. martin scorsese

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Edith Wharton with canine epaulettes Miza and Mimi, 1898

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Everything about her shimmered and glimmered softly, as if her dress had been woven out of candle-beams; and she carried her head high, like a pretty woman challenging a roomful of rivals.

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920)

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Elenore Plaisted Abbott (1875-1935), 'Madrigal', ''Scribner's Magazine'', Vol. 52, #6, June 1915