Invisible Blackness in Edith Wharton's Old New York
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African American Review, 2011•JSTORInvisible Blackness in Edith Wharton's Old New York Page 1 Hildegard Hoeller Invisible
Blackness in Edith Wharton's Old New York Clem Spender's child - growing up on charity in a
Negro hovel, or herded in one of the plague-houses they called Asylums. No: the child came
first - she felt it in every fibre of her body. - Edith Wharton, "The Old Maid" (1924) I hate to be
photographed because results are so trying to my vanity; but I would do anything to obliterate
the Creole lady who has been masquerading in the papers under my name for the last year …
Blackness in Edith Wharton's Old New York Clem Spender's child - growing up on charity in a
Negro hovel, or herded in one of the plague-houses they called Asylums. No: the child came
first - she felt it in every fibre of her body. - Edith Wharton, "The Old Maid" (1924) I hate to be
photographed because results are so trying to my vanity; but I would do anything to obliterate
the Creole lady who has been masquerading in the papers under my name for the last year …
I hate to be photographed because results are so trying to my vanity; but I would do anything to oblit-erate the Creole lady who has been masquerading in the papers under my name for the last year.-Edith Wharton, in a letter to William Crary Brownell (1902)
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