The Custom of the Country

My most recent Bookshelf review discusses Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country.

Edith Wharton seems at one point to have intended The Custom of the Country as a feminist novel, an expose of the harm done to women by their exclusion from public life.

Published in 1913, the year of Wharton’s own divorce, the novel presents a world in which marriage is women’s only career – and personal display their only permissible field of competition.

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