Domestic Biographies: Stowe Howells James and Wharton at Home presents comparative domestic
biographies of four American Realist writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe William Dean Howells
Henry James and Edith Wharton. Drawing upon extensive primary sources to reconstruct the
authors' private lives Domestic Biographies illuminates how they lived when no one was
looking. In particular this book examines how the authors worked and wrote at home and how
their home life in turn made its way into their novels and non-fiction. Domestic Biographies
offers an innovative and exciting architectural and domestic lens through which to study the
lives and literature of America's best-known Realists.
