Bunner Sisters
A novella
The Bunner Sisters own a millinery shop in a poor district in New York. Money is tight, but they are able to get by. When Herman Ramay, a bachelor and local shop owner, comes in to their lives, it teases at new possibilities and new horizons for both women. But will they find that what Ramay might offer elevates them? Or will it destroy something precious?
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November 15, 2016The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist. Educated by tutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career: marriage. But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was an emotional disappointment, if not a disaster. She suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894. In spite of the strain of her marriage, or perhaps because of it, she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889. Her first published book was a guide to interior decorating, but this was followed by several novels and story collections. They…
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