Emma Carleton letter to Mrs. Frederick Gotthold, 1911 Dec. 3.

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Emma Carleton letter to Mrs. Frederick Gotthold, 1911 Dec. 3.

In a letter to Mrs. Gotthold, Cos Cob, Conn., 3 Dec. 1911, from New Albany, Ind., the author praises Elizabeth Stoddard and her local bookstore, and mentions that a critique of Edith Wharton she had published in the New York Sun moved Scribner's to withdraw advertising from the paper. She generally laments what she terms the "indecent" content of modern writers and magazines.

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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Wharton was from birth a part of the wealthy New York society she depicted so vividly in her fiction. Through her father, George Frederic Jones, and her mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, she could claim descent from three families whose names were synonymous with wealth and position: the Stevenses, Rhinelanders, and Schermerhorns. Educated at home with tutors and exposed at an early age to the classics in her fath...

Carleton, Emma, 1889-1935

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Emma Carleton was a poet, humorist, freelance writer, and bibliophile, living primarily in Indiana. From the description of Emma Carleton letter to Mrs. Frederick Gotthold, 1911 Dec. 3. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50217918 ...

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902

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American writer of novels, stories, and poems. From the description of Letter : to [Henry Chandler] Bowen, [1889?] Sept. 27. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530496 American author of novels and poems; wife of Richard Henry Stoddard. From the description of Papers of Elizabeth Stoddard, 1895 December 11. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31685636 From the description of Pa...

Gotthold, Fred, Mrs., 1858-

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