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Selected Bibliography of Recent Criticism
The Mother's Recompense

Heller, Tamar. "Victorian Sensationalism and the Silence of Maternal Sexuality in Edith Wharton's The
Mother's Recompense." Narrative 5.2 (1997): 135-42.

Tonkovich, Nicole. "An Excess of Recompense: The Feminine Economy of The Mother's
Recompense." American Literary Realism 26.3 (1994): 12-32.

Walker, Nancy. "Mothers and Lovers: Edith Wharton's The Reef and The Mother's Recompense."
The Anna Book: Searching for Anna in Literary History. Ed. Mickey Pearlman. Contributions to the
Study of World Literature. Series No: 46. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 91-98.

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Novellas and Other Writings: Madame de Treymes, Ethan Frome, Summer,
Old New York, The Mother's Recompense, A Backward Glance. New York, NY: Library of
America, 1990.