A Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's memoir, looking back on her childhood, social world, travels, friendships, houses, reading, and writing life. It offers Wharton's own account of the conditions that shaped her as a novelist, from old New York manners to European culture and the literary relationships that sustained her career.
The memoir is controlled, selective, and beautifully composed, revealing Wharton's values as much through what she emphasizes as through what she withholds. It is especially valuable for understanding her sense of place, design, discipline, and social observation across a changing world. Readers interested in literary memoirs, women writers, Gilded Age society, transatlantic culture, and the background to Wharton's fiction will find A Backward Glance indispensable.
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