Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge
Auteur van The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Wooldridge, Connie Nordhielm
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Richmond, Indiana, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Athens, Greece
Seoul, South Korea
Sherborn, Massachusetts, USA - Opleiding
- University of Chicago (MLS, MEd)
- Beroepen
- flight attendant
teacher
librarian - Organisaties
- Richmond Symphony Orchestra Board
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- Werken
- 6
- Leden
- 244
- Populariteit
- #93,239
- Waardering
- 3.6
- Besprekingen
- 30
- ISBNs
- 14
OPD: 2010
format: 173-page hardcover
acquired: Library book read: Mar 9 time reading: 4:18, 1.5 mpp
rating: 4
genre/style: Young Adult biography theme: Wharton
locations: lots – New York City, Bar Harbor ME, Lennox MA, Paris, Florence, London etc.
about the author: born 1950? An elementary school librarian and young adult author who was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina, and also grew up in Ohio, and Massachusetts, and eventually settled in Indiana.
This is actually a young adult biography. It's one of 12 library books I checked out on Wharton. I picked it up to scan through and found myself wanting to keep reading. (I thought it would take only two hours to read it all, but I slowed down). I liked that it's a nice efficient biography that covers the essentials of Wharton's very complicated life. It explained a lot of stuff I was only loosely aware of or didn't know at all. I didn’t know she hated James Joyces's and Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness, considering it a bunch of novel elements that weren’t actually put together as a novel (and she thought Ulysses was vulgar with too much low-level humor)
Wharton was of the leisure class, born into the Jones family, the family who is the basis of the phrase "keeping up with the Jones". Her escape in the title is a reference to her leaving both her restrictive social world (documented in her fiction) and her unhappy marriage. She lived her later life as a divorcee in France, winning the French Legion of Honor for her work during WWI, and was otherwise surrounded by bachelors, like Henry James, and publishing a book a year.
Things I found interesting:
Edith Wharton was a special writer and unique personality, and she makes a great subject for a biography.
2024
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