Jul 27, 2013
Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence, chapter 9, with many thanks to our reader, Brenda Dayne.
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Literary Links of interest for this chapter:
- Map of NY neighborhoods
- a family landau
- Dante
- Petrarch
- Ruskiin
- John Addington Symonds
- Vernon Lee's "Euphorion"
-
English painters of the present day: essays by J.
Beavington Atkinson, Sidney Colvin, P.G. Hamerton,
W.M. Rossetti, and Tom Taylor
-
The Renaissance
by Walter Pater
- Botticelli
- Fra Angelico
- pampas grass
- Randolph Rogers statuettes
- Jacqueminot roses
- Buhl table
- gilt vitrine
- Saxe collections
- verrà
- brougham drawn by a big roan
- des quartiers excentriques
- spill
- attar-of-roses
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