The old maid
(The 'Fifties)
Birthmothers
Illegitimate children
Single women, fiction
Single women
Cousins
Weddings
Play
Marriage, fiction
Mothers and daughters, fiction
Fiction, family life
Mothers and daughters
New york (n.y.), fiction
Fiction, psychological
Fiction
Originally serialized in The Red Book Magazine in 1922, The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her—the beautiful, upstanding Delia—and her true mother, her plai…
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