“No major American novelist has led a more privileged life than Wharton did … To be rich like Wharton may be what all of us secretly or not so secretly want, but privilege like hers isn’t easy to like; it puts her at a moral disadvantage … She was … opposed to … woman suffrage … [Wharton] did have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn’t pretty.”
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