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Reading progress update: I've read 60 out of 368 pages.

The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton, Linda Wagner-Martin

Hey, Char, have you read this one? I know you are such an Edith Wharton fan!

 

Undine Spragg is our main protagonist. She is new money, Midwestern, heir to a druggist fortune, named after a hair straightening solution released the week she was born. Father is firmly nouveau riche, Undine has aspirations above her station. This is the third in a cycle of New York stories written by Wharton which I have read, in addition to The House of Mirth and Age of Innocence.

 

Wharton is up there with Austen, Gaskell and Cather for me.