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The Mother's Recompense

By Edith Wharton, Joanna Biggs (Editor), Jennifer Wilson (Editor), Allison Miriam Smith (Editor)
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By Edith Wharton, Joanna Biggs (Editor), Jennifer Wilson (Editor), Allison Miriam Smith (Editor)
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Edith Wharton's little discussed Jazz Age classic, The Mother’s Recompense (1925), finds Kate Clephane returning to New York society, after abandoning her husband and three-year-old daughter years before.

American Kate Clephane has lived in Europe for twenty years, the ghosts of a failed marriage and abandoned daughter haunting her as she drifts along the French Riviera. It is an aimless, turbulent life, lived in the company of other expats and outcasts, the scars of World War I still evide...

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