TY  - GEN
T1  - What a library means to a woman : Edith Wharton and the will to collect books
A1  - Liming, Sheila
LA  - English
PP  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1152425687
AB  - "This book makes a claim for the centrality of libraries to the mythos of self-making in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American culture, focusing on Edith Wharton as its primary case in point. Wharton was never formally educated; rather, her private library collection, portions of which she inherited from her father, formed the basis of an education that would, in time, directly contribute to her success as a popular author"--
CN  - PS3545.H16 L56 2020
SN  - 9781452960654
SN  - 1452960658
SN  - 1517907047
SN  - 9781517907044
SN  - 1517907039
SN  - 9781517907037
SN  - 9781452960661
KW  - Wharton, Edith, : 1862-1937 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Wharton, Edith, : 1862-1937 : Library.
KW  - Wharton, Edith, : 1862-1937 : Books and reading.
KW  - Wharton, Edith, : 1862-1937
KW  - Libraries in literature.
KW  - Bibliothèques dans la littérature.
KW  - American.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM.
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Libraries in literature
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -