TY - GEN T1 - My dear governess : the letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann A1 - Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 A2 - Goldman-Price, Irene C. LA - English PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 2012 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn794671679 AB - "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 confidant, 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"--Provided by publisher OP - 296 CN - PS3545.H16 Z48 2012eb SN - 9780300183382 SN - 0300183380 SN - 9780300169898 SN - 0300169892 SN - 9781280571213 SN - 1280571217 KW - Wharton, Edith, : 1862-1937 : Correspondence. KW - Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, : 1849-1916 : Correspondence. KW - Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, : 1849-1916 KW - Wharton, Edith, : 1862-1937 KW - Authors, American : 20th century : Correspondence. KW - Authors, American : 19th century : Correspondence. KW - Écrivains américains : 20e siècle : Correspondance. KW - Écrivains américains : 19e siècle : Correspondance. KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS : Letters. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General. KW - Authors, American KW - 1800-1999 KW - autobiographies (literary works) KW - Autobiographies KW - Personal correspondence KW - Autobiographies. ER -