Edith Wharton's Subtle Revenge?: Morton Fullerton and the Female Artist in Hudson River Bracketed and The Gods Arrive

As the letters from Edith Wharton to Morton Fullerton attest, the relationship between the two was immensely important to Wharton. Passionate and complex, the affair was inextricably bound up with Edith Wharton’s literary genius and Fullerton’s more pedestrian talent. The letters demonstrate the ecstasy and the inevitable pain of the affair for Wharton, but they also demonstrate her persistence as a writer, and her increasing recognition of her own personal and artistic worth.