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Nationality of Author:
"American"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Aestheticism and Decadence"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Victorian"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Work title:
"The Fullness of Life"
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Metaphor Category:
"Architecture"
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Date: 1893
A woman's nature "is like a great house full of rooms ... and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes."
preview | full record— Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)