This author's own age of innocence is seen here
[DOC] [TLE] Contradictory Depictions of the New Woman: Reading Edith ... [PAR] 1Although critical accounts of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence vary in their 
... and this is seen as reflecting a typically gloomy prognosis regarding the fate of 
.... although the authors of New Woman novels were not consciously creating a 
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