Lewis, R. W. B

A biography of American writer Edith Wharton, following her from old New York, to Edwardian England and Paris, through the First World War, and to the French Riviera; and discussing her family relationships, youth, marriage to Teddy Wharton, mid-life love affair, and her literary career.

A biography of thirteenth-century Italian poet-historian Dante Alighieri, discussing his youth, his days as a soldier, his civic leadership, and his years of exile from Florence.

Traces the origins, development, and flowering of the intellectual family, from its eighteenth-century Irish origins to the death of the novelist Henry James in 1916.