exploring the innermost room
How Henry James's Portrait of a Lady uses close reading to take us inside the mind of Isabel Archer
In her book of ghost stories, Edith Wharton writes that a woman is like a house:
“A woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms ... and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits …
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