I suspect nipping at the heels of Thomas Hardy will be Edith
Wharton because Hermione Lee's long awaited (here anyway) biography of
the great woman is published in February.
I've been excited about that
for far too long so it will be an absolute must-read.
But I've also been
hankering for some time to get back to the US women writers.They have a set of shelves of their own here and I have plenty of the books but big
gaps to fill in my actual reading of Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Dawn
Powell and Dorothy Canfield and of course, wouldn't you know
it, my Edith Wharton reading is incomplete too.
That said I hadn't realised things had got quite this out of hand in the Wharton department whilst my back was turned, serious and ongoing pleasurable application required here it would seem.
