Session Details

Friday, 07 January

294. Edith Wharton on Rodeo Drive

1:45–3:00 p.m., Diamond Salon 7, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Edith Wharton Society

Presiding: Margaret P. Murray, Western Connecticut State Univ.

1. “Intersections of Consumer Culture: ‘Twilight Sleep’ and ‘The Children’ in Pictorial Review,” Noreen O’Connor, King’s Coll.

2. “Jewelry and Women’s ‘Big Bribe’ in Wharton’s Twenties Novels,” Jenny Glennon, Univ. of Oxford

3. “From Wharton’s Lilies to Bushnell’s Lolas: Edith Wharton and the New Narcissism,” Emily J. Orlando, Fairfield Univ.

4. “The ‘Wanamaker Touch’ in Fiction,” Ann L. Patten, Univ. of Dublin, Trinity Coll.

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