Henry Carter Hull

Gives an assessment of the artistic achievements and cultural contributions of Edith Wharton.

"In this novel by the author of Three Lives, a blue blood New York lawyer recounts his life through stories of people he has encountered along the way. Linking three generations of a Wall Street law firm, The Education of Oscar Fairfax provides a revealing portrait of the American upper classes throughout the twentieth century. The story opens in 1908, as St. Luke's Cathedral rises stone by stone on lower Broadway, and young Oscar learns a lesson...

Text and a few photographs examine the many facets of Wharton's life, and her relationships with publishers. Also explores her charitable work during World War I, and the financial distress that contributed to her death.

Against the rules of Gilded Age society, Edith Wharton falls in love with a dashing, younger journalist, Morton Fullerton, and their scandalous affair threatens everything in her life, especially her ties to Anna Bahlmann, her governess turned literary secretary, and the one person most deeply involved in her writing.