The Content Reader

For the Paris in July month, hosted by Tamara at Thyme for Tea , I read The Age of Desire by Jennie Field (my review here ). It is a historical fiction about Edith Wharton during some years of her life. It was known that she had an unknown ‘love of her life’, but it was presumed to be Walter Berry, to whom she was engaged in her youth, and who became a life long friend. In later years it has been discovered that it was not him at all, but a man she had a love affair with during her early years in Paris, William Morton Fullerton. Of course, this tickled my sense of real life mystery and I had to look him up on the net. Maybe there was something to read about him, especially since he seemed to me a very illusive character in the book. Marion Mainwaring, has lived in Paris and London for many years and also completed Edith Wharton’s novel The Buccaneers , as well as writing a couple of novels on her own. When she learned that Fullerton was the love of Wharton’s life, she set out on a ...