1See "Current Fiction", Rev. of The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton, in Nation, 17 Oct. 1907, p. 352.
2See also Eliz- abeth Ammons, Edith Wharton's Argument with America, Athens: U of Georgia P, 1980, p. 43.
3Carol J. Singley, Edith Whar- ton: Marten of Mind and Spirit, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995, p. 34.
4See Shari Benstock, Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900 -1940, Austin: U of Texas P, 1986, pp. 173 -174.
5See Gary Totten, "The Machine in the Home: Women and Technology in The Fruit of the Tree", in Gary Totten, ed. , Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors : Edith Wharton and Material Culture, Tuscaloosa : U of Alabama P, 2007, pp. 262 - 263.
6See Mary V, Marchand, "Death to Lady Bountiful: Women and Reform in Edith Wharton's ' The Fruit of the Tree' ", in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, (18) 2001, p. 70.
7Ellen Dupree, "The New Woman, Progressivism, and the Woman Writer in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree", in American Literary Realism, (31) 1999, p. 45.
8See Mary V. Marchand, "Death to Lady Bountiful : Women and Reform in Edith Wharton's ' The Fruit of the Tree' " p. 72.
9See Charlotte Jennifer Rich, Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era , Columbia, Mo. : U of Missouri P, 2009, p. 200.
10See Deborah Carlin, "To F More Im- perfect Union : Gender, Tradition, and the Text in Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree", in Alfred Bendixen and Annette Zilversmit, eds. , Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays, New York: Garland, 1992, pp. 57 -58.
