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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann

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

Goldman-Price, Irene

Hardcover

Literary FiguresLetters & Essays

ISBN10: 0300169892
ISBN13: 9780300169898
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Jun 5 2012
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.45 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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.

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