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The House of Mirth

Met Gala '24 and Edith Wharton
Yes, there's a connection here
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Wharton Wednesday: Book 2, Ch 11 - 14
Week 10: "The word which made all clear."
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Wharton Wednesday: Book 2, Ch 7 - 10
Week 9: "How much longer that hope would last she dared not conjecture."
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Wharton Wednesday: Book 2, Ch 4, 5, 6
Week 8: "For the first time in her life, she found herself utterly alone"
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Wharton Wednesday: Book 2, Ch 1, 2 & 3
Week 7: Welcome to Book 2
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Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Ch 14 & 15
Week 6: The End of Book 1
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Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Ch 11, 12 & 13
Week 5: "Deuced bold thing to show herself in that get-up!"
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Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Ch 8, 9, 10
Week 4: "The first thousand dollar cheque which Lily received...strengthened her self-confidence in the exact degree to which it effaced her debts."
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Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Chapters 5, 6, and 7
Week 3: "No one could hurt her as much as she was hurting herself"
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Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Chapters 2 - 4
Week 2: "She was beginning to have fits of angry rebellion against fate"
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Wharton Wednesday: Welcome to Chapter 1
"What was Miss Bart doing in town at that season?"
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Read "The House of Mirth" with me!
An open invitation to an early spring read-a-long of a classic American novel
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