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• Quotation of the day – Edith Wharton

  
  Funny signs — Authority: 418
  If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937)
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• Rosedale in Love, by Lev Raphael – A Review

  
  Austenprose — Authority: 85
  In honor of Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday yesterday, Kimberly Denny-Ryder has generously shared her review of this new novel inspired by Wharton’s The House of Mirth. The Gilded Age of America is one of my favorite time periods to read about.  This is probably due to the fact that I grew up near NYC and [...]
  5 days ago

• Hello Wharton Abbey: In Celebration of Edith Wharton’s 150th Birthday: Her Novels and Their Legacy: Guest Blog by Lev Raphael

  
  Austenprose — Authority: 482
  “True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.” – Edith Wharton Edith Wharton, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, designer, and taste-setter of her time was born 150 years ago today. Huzzah! Renown for her novels: The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The ...
  6 days ago

• New Transport Bus for Vista

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 127
  Thanks to a very generous donation from the The Edith Murphy Foundation and a contribution from the Rotary club of Rutland, Vista, the local charity for people with sight loss in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland have been able to purchase a new wheelchair accessible minibus to replace their 14 year old bus. The ...
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• Edith Bowman: “Meryl Streep makes a phenomenal apple pie.”

  
  Dean Piper's World — Authority: 408
  Who knew Meryl Streep was such a whizz in the kitchen? By the sounds of it The Iron Lady actress is gunning for a Delia Smith biopic next. Radio 1′s Edith Bowman let slip the A-lister’s hidden culinary skills at the Film Critics’ Circle Awards. She said: “I had dinner with Meryl about two months ago as ...
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• David Hockney: A Bigger Picture – Review

  
  Cult Hub — Authority: 111
  “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather,” so said Victorian art critic John Ruskin over a 150 years ago and it’s a sentiment mirrored today by arguably the greatest living British ...
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• Now and Then

  
  style court — Authority: 108
  [Recent edition. Photo my own.] One of the strengths of An Object of Beauty is the way, without ever becoming pedantic, author Steve Martin skillfully weaves a little art history 101 throughout his entertaining fiction. He incorporates a significant array of artists too, from the giants to the lesser known, even ...
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• Jon Corzine v Edith O’ Brien: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 484
  Some of the largest financial debacles of our lifetime revolved around individuals who were able to effectively “arbitrage”, that is knowingly manipulate, their back office operations. I refer specifically to the financial follies surrounding Joe Jett and Kidder Peabody in the early 1990s , Nick Leeson and ...
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• The Bodice Ripper: Before the Storm by Melanie Clegg

  
  For Books' Sake — Authority: 112
  "A tale of iniquity and posh doom..."
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• Downtown Abbey Style: Lady Edith

  
  Mon Petit Chou Chou — Authority: 102
  How was my installment of Downtown Abbey only an hour this week? The tragedy! It did not disappoint within this allotted time slot, however. Edith seems to have finally found her calling, working with the soldiers theyve taken into the Abbey, and might I add much more respectable than her dealings with the local ...
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• Henry James: Mme de Mauves (1874)

  
  Beauty is a Sleeping Cat — Authority: 497
  It was exactly one year ago that I reviewed Edith Wharton’s Mme de Treymes . Mme de Treymes – Mme de Mauves? Both novellas, both set in Paris, or in the case of Mme de Mauves in St-Germain-en-Laye. It’s hardly a coincidence. And who was influenced by whom is also not hard to find out as James wrote his ...
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• The World of Downton Abbey: A Book Review

  
  Jane Austen's World — Authority: 476
  People simply can’t get enough of Downton Abbey, as my site meter tells me. Everything we bloggers write about the costumes, actors, and historical details is lapped up by eager readers and on nights when the series is aired, my visitor count goes through the roof. People just can’t get enough of the Crawley ...
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• Edith Piaf - Hymne A L’amourEdith wrote this song about...

  
  HIGHLIGHTED LIFE — Authority: 541
  Edith Piaf - Hymne A L’amour Edith wrote this song about Marcel Cerdan, the love of her life, and first performed it at the cabaret  Versailles in New York City just one month before he died in a plane crash coming to see her.  
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• Library Thing: More Wharton

  
  style court — Authority: 108
    [Edith Whartons library at The Mount . Photo by John Bessler from Edith Wharton: A House Full of Rooms: Architecture, Interiors, Gardens by Theresa Craig.] [First edition 1924 book cover from Whartons Old New York series with artwork by Edward C. Caswell.] I dont think Ive ever organized my ...
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• Recap: Downton Abbey, Episode 2.02

  
  Persephone Magazine — Authority: 474
  Time for Downton Abbey ! Have you your tea sandwiches ready? As this week’s episode was a single one, compared to the double dose we got last week, there were no obvious cuts. The running time is nearly exactly the same for the British and American airings. This week’s episode begins in a flurry of activity, ...
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• Sheet music La Vie en Rose Alto Saxophone by Edith Piaf. Life in Pink Alto Sax Score

  
  tubescore — Authority: 109
  La Vie en Rose music score for Alto Saxophone by Edith Piaf. Life in Pink Alto Sax Sheet Music.  tubescore in spanish         Mention the author and the source if you share scores   more scores www.diegosax.es   ...
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• Downton Abbey Season 2: Country houses in medical service

  
  Jane Austen's World — Authority: 476
  Lady Almina, the Countess of Canarvon, who lived at Highclere Castle during the turn of the century and through World War 1, had many qualities in common with the fictional Cora, Countes of Grantham in Downton Abbey. Upon Lady Almina’s marriage, her fortune staved off financial ruin for the 5th Earl of Canarvon and ...
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• Happy 150th Birthday, Edith Wharton, a genius on sex, love and class

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 588
  Wharton, who would have been 150 on January 24th, was the subject of an excellent article by Anita Brookner in the Sunday Telegraph, concentrating in particular on Ethan Frome, the novel serialised on Radio 4s Book of the Week. Ethan Frome is pretty good but new Wharton readers should head first to her three best ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saturday Reads: A New Weekly Feature

  
  Much Madness is Divinest Sense — Authority: 106
  As usual, Robin Bates’s exploration of literature as a mirror enlightens. In this case, Robin considers the notion of books as friends . I’m enjoying Carl Pyrdum’s Thesis Thursday posts (but have to save them for the weekend). This one explores Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain , and ...
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• Happy Birthday Edith

  
  style court — Authority: 108
    [First three photos my own.] With January 24 being Edith Whartons 150th birthday, I decided to pull some of her books off my shelves. The 21st-century reprint of Whartons 1907 Italian Villas and Their Gardens   -- the books design and its text -- could be a great source of inspiration for an ...
  2 weeks ago

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