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The New York Times today carries an item about the Mount, Edith Wharton’s great house in Lenox, Massachusetts. Though I fell in love with Wharton’s writing when I read Ethan Frome in high school, I read or re-read many of her novels after I surveyed The Decoration of Houses for a course in graduate school. It’s now difficult for me not to read a Wharton novel without trying to figure what the baseboards looked like (curse you, Penn American Studies!).

More important than my feeble imagination, though, is that this historic house museum needs to raise $3 million in the next month (Women’s History Month, to boot). The NYT article is found at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/books/23moun.html

And the Mount’s website (taking donations) is:

http://www.edithwharton.org/

By Shirley Wajda, Sat, February 23, 2008 - 10:59 am
Categories: News