![]() ![]() In The Age of Innocence the missed chances and the sadness of unrequited love are played out in such a lush setting you find yourself wanting to live their lives. Like Jane Austen she described each scene as if it were photographed and her characters were so real you wanted to go and put an arm around the poor woman in The House of Mirth. I had to read Edith Wharton for a graduate college course and again I became fascinated by her attention to detail. The story was so compelling and although I had difficulty with some of the situations, I wanted her to end up with the dashing hero. ![]() When I first read Emma I was unable to stop reading and though my teacher had only a few chapters assigned for us to read I found myself reading beyond them to the end of the book. She brought you into everything and you felt like you were part of each scene. What I like about Jane Austin’s writing is the way she was able to tell a story, yet she described her scenes in such a way you felt you were there. Yet both had very independent heroines who went against the established norms for society at their respective times. Both of them had feminine main characters and showed how a woman’s life was dependent upon her getting married. Jane Austen and Edith Wharton both wrote about every day life during their respective time periods. ![]() ![]() The two women writers who have influenced me wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ![]()
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