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Henry James's Portrait of a Lady (1881) is the story of Isabel Archer, a young American woman who comes into wealth and leaves for Europe, where she will test her mettle. This novel is considered by many to have been an inspiration for The Age of Innocence.

Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) vies with The Age of Innocence as Wharton's best work. Like The Age of Innocence, this novel is set in late nineteenth-century New York; here, however, she...

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