![]() She becomes infatuated with him, and the two have an affair, although he is secretly engaged to the worldlier Annabelle Balch. Lucius Harney, a young New York City architect visiting an elderly relative in the area, serves as the catalyst that changes Charity’s world. She prevails upon Lawyer Royall to exercise his influence to help her attain a part-time job in the local library, and hopes to save her earnings in order to relocate. Although she purports an attitude of disdain as to the opinions of others, she constantly compares herself to the more educated and privileged Annabelle Balch, an inhabitant of the more sophisticated city of Springfield. ![]() ![]() Charity, a young woman living with her adoptive father, Lawyer Royall, in the small town of North Dormer, is desperate to escape the tedium of her environment. Summer, conversely, deals with a far less privileged group living in an unidentified rural area of New England. In 1921, she became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Age of Innocence, which dealt with the New York City elite. Wharton published over forty novels, stories, and nonfiction books over the course of thirty years. ![]() She achieved celebrity status upon the publication of her novel, The House of Mirth, in 1905 she and her husband divorced shortly afterward. Though she married an older man in 1885, Wharton later revealed that she had not enjoyed romantic passion until engaging in an affair decades afterward. ![]()
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