By contrasting images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, etiquette manuals and the fiction of Edith Wharton, the author of this book argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in 19th-century America..
By contrasting images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, etiquette manuals and the fiction of Edith Wharton, the author of this book argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in 19th-century America.