Adeline R. Tintner

These new and classic essays, researched and written over a 25-year period, are driven and enriched by the enthusiasm, curiosity, and passion of a scholar still making discoveries about a subject of lifelong fascination. Essays at the center of the collection explore Wharton’s textual relationships with authors whom she knew well—especially Henry James but also Paul Bourget, F. Marion Crawford, and Vivienne de Watteville.