Volume 33, Number 12 · July 17, 1986
Good Housekeeping
By Louis S. Auchincloss
Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
by Judith Fryer
University of North Carolina Press, 403 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Henry James, already an expatriate in 1883, noted on his return to America in that year that the 'most salient and peculiar point in our social life' was to be found in the situation of women. He perceived an 'abyss of inequality' which he attributed to 'the growing divorce between the American woman (with her comparative leisure, culture, grace, social instincts, artistic ambitions) and the male American immersed in the ferocity of business, with no time for any but the most sordid interests, purely commercial, professional, democratic and political.'
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