Drawing-rooms are always tidy
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, 20 August 1992
The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton
by Gloria Erlich.
California, 210 pp., £13.95, May 1992,0 520 07583 8 Show More
by Gloria Erlich.
California, 210 pp., £13.95, May 1992,
“... upper middle-class home, we wonder whether we are expected to fear for the heroine or resent her.Gloria Erlich’s new study of Edith Wharton also traces the dire effects of a mother’s reliance on a nanny. Though Erlich begins with a cautious disclaimer, suggesting ‘not that surrogate nurturing is a negative ... ”
