Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Chapters 2 - 4

Week 2: "She was beginning to have fits of angry rebellion against fate"

Welcome to Week 2 of our Edith Wharton
read-a-long!

Today, we’re working through Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of The House of Mirth.

Full read-a-long details are available here. If you have not read the assigned chapters for today yet, I suggest stopping here and doing so before you read any more of this post!

Revisit our summary of chapter 1 here. Remember: read through chapters 5, 6, and 7 for next week. Review our full reading schedule here.

I’m so excited to hear your thoughts on these chapters.

This week, I created a Pinterest board with Mirth-inspired imagery, should you need some imagination-fuel as we dive deeper into the story.

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