A Sprig of Witch Hazel: Edith Wharton's Secret Affair

Published: April 12, 2022, 4:05 a.m.

As writer Edith Wharton began to spend more and more time in Paris during the early years of the 1900s, she made the acquaintance\xa0of the American journalist Morton Fullerton.\xa0 Their meeting grew into a passionate and complicated love affair combining joy and emotional pain.