Last week’s library entry on Mark Twain’s Library got me to thinking about what other writer’s library’s look like. I started prowling around the web to see what I could find. As expected, it tends to be the very rich and famous writers whose libraries have been preserved. Possibly the grandest of them all belongs to Edith Wharton, who chronicled of the Gilded Age so well because she lived the life.
Her home in Lennox Massachusetts was known as The Mount.
And here is a picture of her library, which is as elegant and formal as you might imagine for someone of Edith Wharton’s stature. Lovely, but not particularly comfortable? I can imagine enjoying this room to browse the shelves, but as soon as I found something, I think I would scurry away to find a more cozy place to enjoy the book.
