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Author Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

Title My dear governess : the letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann / edited by Irene Goldman-Price.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Summary "An exciting archive came to auction in 2009: the papers and personal effects of Anna Catherine Bahlmann (1849-1916), a governess and companion to several prominent American families. Among the collection were one hundred thirty-five letters from her most famous pupil, Edith Newbold Jones, later the great American novelist Edith Wharton. Remarkably, until now, just three letters from Wharton's childhood and early adulthood were thought to survive. Bahlmann, who would become Wharton's literary secretary and confidant, emerges in the letters as a seminal influence, closely guiding her precocious young student's readings, translations, and personal writing. Taken together, these letters, written over the course of forty-two years, provide a deeply affecting portrait of mutual loyalty and influence between two women from different social classes. This correspondence reveals Wharton's maturing sensibility and vocation, and includes details of her life that will challenge long-held assumptions about her formative years. Wharton scholar Irene Goldman-Price provides a rich introduction to My Dear Governess that restores Bahlmann to her central place in Wharton's life"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Correspondence.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Genre/Form Correspondence.
Subject Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, 1849-1916 -- Correspondence.
Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, 1849-1916.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Authors, American.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Chronological Term 19th century
1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Records and correspondence.
Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Added Author Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, 1849-1916, addressee.
Goldman-Price, Irene C., editor.
Added Title Correspondence. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011087078
Other Form: Print version: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Correspondence. Selections. My dear governess. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012 9780300169898 (DLC) 2011048136 (OCoLC)759174403
ISBN 9780300183382 (electronic book)
0300183380 (electronic book)
9780300169898
0300169892
9781280571213
1280571217