An insider\'s glimpse of the suprirsing, scandalous time famed novelist Edith Wharton called Lenox home.
Author Cornelia Brooke Gilder gives an insider\'s glimpse of the community\'s reaction to this disruptive star during her tumultuous Lenox decade..
But her perceptive and sometimes indiscreet pen also alienated potent figures like Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and Georgiana Welles Sargent.
As a hostess, designer, gardener and writer, Wharton set high standards that delighted many, including Ambassador Joseph Choate and sculptor Daniel Chester French.
She and her husband, Teddy, planned a defiantly classical villa, and she became a bestselling author with The House of Mirth in 1905.
An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect.
In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox.
An insider\'s glimpse of the suprirsing, scandalous time famed novelist Edith Wharton called Lenox home