Found: Wharton-esque Americans in Italy
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1christinedux
I’m trying to remember the title and author of a Gilded Age story/novella, in the style of Edith Wharton, probably written in the late 19th or early 20th century. I don’t think it’s by Edith Wharton, although it could have been. At first I thought it was The Light in the Piazza by Elizabeth Spencer, but it’s not.
Two American matrons have taken their eligible daughters to Italy, no doubt to find them husbands. The setting is a light filled piazza, and there is a lot of backstory as the two mothers talk; they have known each other for a long time and are friends, but not really. The dramatic climax is the discovery of the (adulterous) paternity of the socially superior daughter.
Two American matrons have taken their eligible daughters to Italy, no doubt to find them husbands. The setting is a light filled piazza, and there is a lot of backstory as the two mothers talk; they have known each other for a long time and are friends, but not really. The dramatic climax is the discovery of the (adulterous) paternity of the socially superior daughter.
2amanda4242
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3lilithcat
I think that may be another story by Elizabeth Spencer, and it may be in The Light in the Piazza and other Italian tales.
