The Mother’s Recompense A novel Works of Edith Wharton Book 6 eBook Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton (/ˈiːdɪθ ˈhwɔrtən/; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.
Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City. She had two much older brothers, Frederic Rhinelander, who was sixteen, and Henry Edward, who was eleven. She was baptized April 20, 1862, Easter Sunday, at Grace Church. To her friends and family she was known as "Pussy Jones". The saying "keeping up with the Joneses" is said to refer to her father's family. She was also related to the Rensselaer family, the most prestigious of the old patroon families. She had a lifelong friendship with her Rhinelander niece, landscape architect Beatrix Farrand of Reef Point in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Edith was born during the Civil War; she was three years old when the South surrendered. After the war, the family traveled extensively in Europe. From 1866 to 1872, the Jones family visited France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. During her travels, the young Edith became fluent in French, German, and Italian. At the age of ten, she suffered from typhoid fever while the family was at a spa in the Black Forest. After the family returned to the United States in 1872, they spent their winters in New York and their summers in Newport, Rhode Island. While in Europe, she was educated by tutors and governesses. She rejected the standards of fashion and etiquette that were expected of young girls at the time, intended to enable women to marry well and to be displayed at balls and parties. She thought these requirements were superficial and oppressive. Edith wanted more education than she received, so she read from her father's library and from the libraries of her father's friends. Her mother forbade her to read novels until she was married, and Edith complied with this command.
Edith began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl. She attempted to write a novel at age eleven. Her first publication was a translation of the German poem, "Was die Steine Erzählen" ("What the Stones Tell") by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, which earned her $50. She was 15 at the time. Her family did not wish her name to appear in print because the names of upper class women of the time only appeared in print to announce birth, marriage, and death. Consequently, the poem was published under the name of a friend's father, E. A. Washburn. He was a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson and supported women's education. He played a pivotal role in Edith's efforts to educate herself and he encouraged her ambition to write professionally. In 1877, at the age of 15, she secretly wrote a 30,000 word novella "Fast and Loose". In 1878 her father arranged for a collection of two dozen original poems and five translations, Verses, to be privately published. In 1880 she had five poems published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly, then a revered literary magazine. Despite these early successes, she was not encouraged by her family nor her social circle, and though she continued to write she did not publish anything again until her poem, "The Last Giustiniani", was published in Scribner's Magazine in October 1889.
Edith was engaged to Henry Stevens in 1882 after a two-year courtship. The month the two were to marry, the engagement abruptly ended.
The Mother’s Recompense A novel Works of Edith Wharton Book 6 eBook Edith Wharton
The ONLY reason this doesn't get five stars is due to the publisher's mistakes in printing: the long middle paragraph on page 92 is missing content, there is a missing comma on page 163 ("...she would tell him everything she thought" should have a comma after "everything"), and page 215 reads "with the accent of authority" when it ought to read "without the accent of authority." Thank you to my wonderful English 479 professor who provided me with the information on these misprints. If you're like me though, you'll be zooming through the text to find out what happens next and likely won't notice these errors! Excellent book!!!Product details
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The Mother’s Recompense A novel Works of Edith Wharton Book 6 eBook Edith Wharton Reviews
After reading "The Age of Innocence", "The House of Mirth", and "Custom the Country" I thought I'd read the best of Wharton. Not So! Wharton is always exemplary in portraying upper class late 19th century New Yorkers and their staid customs. Some things are de rigueur and others just aren't allowed. Unlike her earlier gilded age settings "Recompense" takes place post World War I and there are cars, easier travel within and without the country, telephones provide easier communication. In her early twenties Kate ran from her rules worshiping husband, leaving behind her three year old daughter. Worse still a society playboy helped her escape and then dumped her and everyone who matters knows about it. She exiles herself to Europe and settles in with other rule breakers. They partially redeem themselves with good works during the war. Time moves on. Divorce is invented! More importantly others from her social set misbehave eclipsing her own scandal. When her husband and then her mother-in-law die Kate's daughter invites her back home to live with her. Kate is surprised at how easily she fits back in, how nonchalantly her old cronies welcome her and mostly how much her daughter cares for her. The one love affair she allowed herself during her exile comes back to haunt her threatening her new life however. Despite this Kate sees vistas of possible happiness, but ultimately she has to decide between speaking the truth and hurting her daughter or keeping secrets that are almost impossible to swallow. Sadly her real choice narrows down to deciding whether she wants to feel alone and alienated in NY or on the Continent. At least this is territory she's already familiar with.
Not my favorite Wharton, but a fast, compelling read all the same. A woman who, in earlier years, deserted her husband and young daughter, finds her way back cleared by the passage of time and some convenient deaths. All is peachy until the mother finds her grown daughter attracted to man she herself has been involved with.
As a strong believer in the power of confession, I admit to impatience with secrets driving a plot, and I experienced irritation with Kate Clephane that approached Tess Durbeyfield proportions. Just say something, already! Daughter Anne was so earnest and intense that she needed a dose of truth.
I'm reaching the end of Wharton's major works, which is a bummer. At some point I may have to break down and read the short stories.
Plot It was pretty easy to figure out where things were headed in this book, but that didn't detract from the story. It's interesting to read about how once small incident can so greatly affect the lives of many.
Characters None of the characters were particularly likable, but Wharton excels at writing characters that are fully fleshed out and seem very real. They don't need to be likable because you feel like you're reading about real people.
Overall Some of Wharton's less famous works are really great, and this is one of those. I would definitely recommend it to fans of her writing. I always appreciate that her books are high quality, but are very readable and accessible.
You can see the climax coming a mile away, as another reader noted, but instead of detracting from the novel this merely deepens the pity you feel for its middle-aged heroine, trapped by the consequences of unheroic choices she made earlier in life. The novel shines a penlight into the "guiltiest swervings of the weaving heart" (A. R. Ammons) with the psychological subtlety of Henry James, the inexorable movement of Greek tragedy, and the profound insights of Wharton's own special terrain, the loneliness and poverty of single or divorced women who must face the judgment of a society they tried to abandon. At least at the end of this one, Kate is still alive and has regained, painfully, enough self-respect to endure her return to loneliness in peace. I am not sure the ending quite makes sense--there is no reason why her very determined daughter should not hunt her down and drag her back to family life in New York--but all the same the novel packs a big wallop. A must-read for admirers of Wharton.
... and especially if you've already read most of them -- of Trollope, Dickens, Gaskell, Gissing, James, and perhaps some of their French counterparts -- there's no reason why you won't enjoy "A Mother's Recompense" by Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Published in 1925, "Recompense" has been regarded as Wharton's "breakaway-from-James" declaration of moral and literary independence. If so, it was a minute crack of a breakaway; "Redemption" is almost indistinguishable from early Henry James novels except for being graciously less involuted in language and strangely lacking in the sardonic humor that makes reading James worth the struggle.
I'm not going to tell you anything about the "plot" of A Mother's Recompense except that it hinges upon an implausible coincidence (as do so many Victorian novels) which in turn makes the narrative progress of the novel totally predictable from the third chapter on ... until the well-prepared and unforeseen outcome. How much closer to the Henry James of "The Bostonians" could she have come?
Well-paced. Crafty character development. Choice depictions of upper-class society in Late Victorian New York. Not a whiff of the 20th C. A fun read.
Selection for my book club. Showed lifestyles of the period. An enjoyable read.
The ONLY reason this doesn't get five stars is due to the publisher's mistakes in printing the long middle paragraph on page 92 is missing content, there is a missing comma on page 163 ("...she would tell him everything she thought" should have a comma after "everything"), and page 215 reads "with the accent of authority" when it ought to read "without the accent of authority." Thank you to my wonderful English 479 professor who provided me with the information on these misprints. If you're like me though, you'll be zooming through the text to find out what happens next and likely won't notice these errors! Excellent book!!!
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