To: Tax-chick
Edith Wharton’s 1850s-set slice-of-life is “The Old Maid,” one of her most famous novelettes. The eponymous character has a child out of wedlock, and, by shifts, is able to bring her up but without being acknowledged as the mother. That must be the basis for the Bette Davis movie of the same name.
47 posted on
12/22/2016 5:39:03 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
48 posted on
12/22/2016 5:42:35 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
According to Wikipedia, the play and movie reset the story in the 1860s rather than the 50s.
53 posted on
12/22/2016 11:46:04 AM PST by
Tax-chick
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