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My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann Hardcover - 2012

by Irene Goldman-Price (Editor)


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A rich trove of letters from Edith Wharton to her governess, written over the course of their long and affectionate friendship An exciting archive came to auction in 2009: the papers and personal effects of Anna Catherine Bahlmann (1849-1916), a governess and companion to several prominent American families. Among the collection were one hundred thirty-five letters from her most famous pupil, Edith Newbold Jones, later the great American novelist Edith Wharton. Remarkably, until now, just three letters from Wharton's childhood and early adulthood were thought to survive. Bahlmann, who would become Wharton's literary secretary and confidante, emerges in the letters as a seminal influence, closely guiding her precocious young student's readings, translations, and personal writing. Taken together, these letters, written over the course of forty-two years, provide a deeply affecting portrait of mutual loyalty and influence between two women from different social classes.

This correspondence reveals Wharton's maturing sensibility and vocation, and includes details of her life that will challenge long-held assumptions about her formative years. Wharton scholar Irene Goldman-Price provides a rich introduction to My Dear Governess that restores Bahlmann to her central place in Wharton's life.

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  • Title My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann
  • Author Irene Goldman-Price (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, Qj10
  • Date 2012-06-05
  • ISBN 9780300169898 / 0300169892
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.45 x 1.14 in (23.88 x 16.38 x 2.90 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Authors, American - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011048136
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Choice, 12/01/2012, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/15/2012, Page 79
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/09/2012, Page 44

About the author

Irene Goldman-Price has taught literature and women's studies at Ball State University and Penn State University. She serves on the editorial board of the Edith Wharton Review and has consulted and taught at The Mount, Edith Wharton's house museum in Massachusetts. In 2010-2011 she was a visiting fellow at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where the Wharton letters are held.

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