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Hace 2 días · She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed with breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Lewis is buried beside her in a Jaffrey, New Hampshire plot. Cather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience.
13 de jul. de 2024 · After Cather’s death in 1947, her partner, Edith Lewis, conceded to cheaper editions for schools, where countless fans of the book were and still are born. When Ezra Klein praised journalist Rebecca Traister for her prose in 2021, he asked “if there’s a book you reread for the sheer beauty of the prose.”
Hace 3 días · Edith Wharton ( / ˈhwɔːrtən /; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
Hace 3 días · The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven portal fantasy novels by British author C. S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published between 1950 and 1956, the series is set in the fictional realm of Narnia, a fantasy world of magic, mythical beasts and talking animals.
14 de jul. de 2024 · asks Louise Keller's father, a Baptist minister who has accepted a position as a missionary on the small island of Panay. Fourteen-year-old Louise, a writer of poetry who chafes at small-town life, is eager for the change. But the new experiences Louise has dreamed of soon turn nightmarish: when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, the war, which ...
19 de jul. de 2024 · She lived at four different homes in Greenwich Village over the years, in a domestic partnership with an editor named Edith Lewis. However, the most significant of the four homes was at 5 Bank...
12 de jul. de 2024 · But it was soon bought by Sidney and Edith Lewis, who fixed it up and opened it as a hotel in 1949; it’s still run by the Lewis family today, now a five-star Relais & Châteaux retreat.
