The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton Author:Gloria C. Erlich Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolutionfrom her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her discovery of passion in a rapturous midlife love affair with the bisexual Morton Fullerton. Analyzing the novelist's life, letters, and fiction, Erlic... more »h reveals several interrelated identity systemsthe filial, the sexual, and the creativethat evolved together over the course of Wharton's lifetime.« less