The House of Mirth

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The House of Mirth, first published in 1905, is about New York socialite Lily Bart and her attempts to secure a husband amidst the social whirl of New York's Fifth Avenue at the dawn of the Twentieth Century. Wharton pictures a new class of self-made millionaires created by Wall Street, casts a shadow over the tenuous position of those in the "leisure class" and offers a peek at the ascendancy of the self-supporting career woman.

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Joyce McDonald says:

July 15, 2010, 12:55 pm
Rachel Cusk, reporting in The Wall Street Journal, listed "The House of Mirth" as number 1 in her list of five best portraits of disgrace (July 3-4 Weekend Journal, 2010.) Cusk indicates that Wharton moves readers from a Victorian view of "the compromised woman" to a "more modern account of female dependence and vulnerability, one better suited to the social and material aspirations of her time."

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