Edith Wharton is mentioned in a review of Patricia Beard's "After The Ball", the retelling of a 1905 financial scandal of a New York Socialite. It "suggests how Edith Wharton might have sounded had she been hugely interested in the insurance business."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/books/04MASL.html

Sandra Foster
Brookhaven, NY