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   Feb 1, 2007 · 1,136 ratings121 reviews. The definitive biography of one of America’s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf. Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Hermione Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton—tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and ...

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   In spite of the many books written about Wharton and her work — including R. W. B. Lewis's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1975 biography — it is Hermione Lee's determination to provide an...

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   Who is Hermione Lee?

   • Hermione Lee was President of Wolfson College from 2008 to 2017 and is Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the English Faculty at Oxford University. She is a biographer and critic whose work includes biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2006) and Penelope Fitzgerald (2013), and Tom Stoppard (2020).

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   Who was Edith Wharton?

   • Writer and socialite Edith Wharton got the short end of the stick in a 1907 affair with journalist William Morton Fullerton. He made a clean break in 1908 and never looked back, despite the prolific novelist penning hundreds of letters to him. For his part, Fullerton was simply hard to tie down.

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   What books did Edith Wharton write?

   • [Editor] - Edith Wharton: Four Novels of the 1920s. New York: Library of America, 2015. 1031 pages. [Contains four novels by Wharton: The Glimpses of the Moon | A Son at the Front | Twilight Sleep | The Children ] 'A Great House Full of Rooms'. Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales. Ed. Mark Bostridge. London: Continuum, 2004. pp. 31-37.

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   Who is Hermione Lee married to?

   • She has served on the literature advisory panels of the Arts Council and the British Council . Lee is married to Professor John Barnard, Professor Emeritus of the University of Leeds. ^ "Hermione Lee".

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   Lee has published a collection of essays on biography and autobiography, Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing (2005), and a biography of Edith Wharton, published to mixed reviews in 2007 by Chatto & Windus and Knopf. In 2013 the playwright Tom Stoppard asked her to write his biography.

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   She is a biographer and critic whose work includes biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2006) and Penelope Fitzgerald (2013), and Tom Stoppard (2020). She has also written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Roth and Willa Cather, an OUP Very Short Introduction to Biography, and a collection of essays on life-writing, Body Parts.

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   Apr 8, 2008 · About the Author. Hermione Lee is the first woman Goldsmiths' Professor of English at Oxford University. Her books include the internationally acclaimed biography, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, and Body Parts: Essays on Life-writing.

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   Apr 10, 2007 · In its revelation of both the woman and the writer, Edith Wharton is a landmark biography. Hermione Lee's Reading Guide to Edith Wharton. Hermione Lee, about whose Virginia Woolf the Amazon.com reviewer wrote

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10. www.hermionelee.com › whartonHermione Lee Website: Edith Wharton

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    Winner of the English Speaking Union Ambassador's Prize; short listed for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; one of the Washington Post and The Economist's 10 best books of 2007; one of the NYTBR and Publishers' Weekly 100 best books of 2007. [Editor] - Edith Wharton: Four Novels ...