Dwight, Kleanor : 1 Bar Harbor g B as being Lane 207 288 3816 ELEANOR DWIGHT, PH.D. 315 CENTRAL PARK WEST (212) 724-9432 NEW YORK, NY 10025 EDWIGHT95@AOL.COM 8/22/2018 Eleanor Gardiner Has Nuptials Here - The New York Times The New York Times https://nyti.ms/1LBqJf1 ARCHIVES I 1975 Eleanor Gardiner Has Nuptials Here JAN. 2, 1975 Eleanor Morris Collier Gardiner of New York, daughter of Mrs. Sargent Collier of Lake Bluff, Ill., and Bar Harbor, Me., and the late Mr. Collier was married yesterday afternoon to George H. P. Dwight, a partner in the New York law firm of Richards & O'Neil. State Supreme Court Justice Thomas R. Jones performed the ceremony at the bride's home. Mrs. Dwight, a teacher of English literature at the Lycée Francais, is a Sarah Lawrence College alumna with a master's degree from Columbia University. Mr. Dwight is the son of Mrs. Georgie R. Dwight of New York and the late George Dwight, who was in the insurance business. Subscribe and see the full article in TimesMachine New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine-view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. SECTION 2 PAGE ULINE PALMER EARL BRECHLIN PHOTO Eleanor Collier Dwight, the author of "The Letters of the Pauline topic on Palmer: Sunday, A LADY OF LETTERS Chicago's and First Family," will be giving an illustrated lecture Avenue on in Bar Harbor. The Great Lady of the Bar Harbor Historical Society on Ledgelawn Harbor home during the vil- July Palmers lage's 30 gilded at were 4 p.m. age. among For at more the many information high-society telephone residents 288-0000. that called Bar ELEANOR DWIGHT Obituary: View ELEANOR DWIGHT's Obituary by New York Ti... 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An Edith Wharton scholar, she The Guest Book is expired. wrote an illustrated biography of Edith Wharton, published in 1994. Her other books portrayed Diana Vreeland, the Gilded Restore the Guest Book Age in New York City, and tennis innovator James Van Alen. Her articles on gardens, travel, and literature appeared in Harper's Bazaar, House Beautiful, and New York magazines, and the New York Times. She taught and lectured extensively on literature and gardens. She gardened with her husband at their summer home on Mount Desert Island, Maine. A formidable intellect, she served on the boards of Edith Wharton's estate "The Mount," the Colony Club, and the Garden Club of Mount Desert, and was a member of the Century Association. Married 34 years to George H.P. Dwight, who died in 2009, she is survived by her three children, Daphne Trotter, Willard Gardiner, and Sargent Gardiner; her five step-children, Lucinda Dwight, George Dwight, Margaret Dwight, Bradley Dwight, and Susannah Prout; eight grandchildren; and seven step-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 4pm on Tuesday, December 7, at St. Michael's Church, 225 West 99th Street, New York, NY. Donations to the George and Eleanor Dwight Memorial Fund at Groton School, Groton, MA, and The Mount, Lenox, MA, are welcome. Published in The New York Times on Nov. 22, 2010 Remember with Hide f Share Twitter Email My Memorials http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=146774992 2/27/2014 NYSL Testimonial: Eleanor Dwight Page 1 of 2 the Society Library LIBRARY TESTIMONIAL: Eleanor Dwight biographer The New York Society Library, from the beginning, was the perfect refuge for me, a Ph.D. student searching for Edith Wharton, who I soon learned was a library maven herself As I climbed the stairs, the Library's past trustees stared out at me from the photographs on the walls -New Yorkers from families Wharton might have known. Eventually, I was able to claim the most comfortable chair in the Members'Room and pile my finds on an adja- cent table - titles Wharton had read - from the Blashfields' Italian Cities to Ruskin's many volumes, plus samples of "that wide expanse of the classics - English, French and German" - she herself had plunged into. I also devoured books she had written - all easily found in the accessible open stacks. As I read and scratched notes and escaped into Wharton's worlds, I came to understand her own passion for libraries. In The Decoration of Houses, she instructs readers on decorating them: "The housing of a great private library is one of the most interesting problems of interior architecture." Books should be "the chief feature" and ornaments "used with discrimination." In her fiction, she defines characters by what they do in libraries. For Newland Archer in The Age of Innocence, "it was the room in which most of the real things of his life happened," like getting the news that May was to have a child. In The House of Mirth, the library of dreary Percy Gryce, would-be suitor of Lily Bart, is "in a fire-proof annex that looked like a mausoleum," while the philistine Trenors' library, "was in fact never used for reading, though it had a certain popularity as a smoking room or a quiet retreat for flirtations." And what about Wharton's own libraries? Visitors to "The Mount," her newly restored house in Lenox, find it amusing that she was photographed for publicity at her smart writing table, when actually she did her writing in bed. http://www.nysoclib.org/tributes/dwight_eleanor.html 6/29/2006 NYSL Testimonial: Eleanor Dwight Page 2 of 2 Her father's library got her started. While squatting on the thick rug of the sixteen foot-square room, she dragged out book after book "in a secret ecstasy of communion: I say Isecret, 'for I cannot remember ever speaking to anyone of these enraptured sessions. The child knows instinctively when it will be understood, and from the first I kept my adventures with books to myself." She thus marked off for herself a space where she could read, a place that also became her inner world: "There was in me a secret retreat where I wished no one to intrude, or at least no one whom I had yet encountered." Her descriptions capture what we library enthusiasts crave-and can discover at our New York Society Library. Library Testimonials NYSL Main Page http://www.nysoclib.org/tributes/dwight_eleanor.html 6/29/2006 FirstSearch: WorldCat Detailed Record Page 1 of 2 OC LC FirstSearch SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV WorldCat Detailed Record Click on a checkbox to mark a record to be e-mailed or printed in Marked Records. Resource Staff View My Account Options Databases Searching Results Sharing Comments Exit Hide tips List of Records Detailed Record Marked Records Saved Records Goto page WorldCat results for: pn= "Dwight, WorldCat Eleanor.". Record 8 of 10. Subjects Libraries ILL E-mail Print Export Help 8 Mark: Prev Next Detailed Add/View Record Comments The influence of Italy on Edith Wharton Eleanor Dwight 1984 English Book : Thesis/dissertation/manuscript : Microform Archival Material ii, 491 leaves. GET THIS ITEM Availability: Check the catalogs in your library. Libraries worldwide that own item: 3 HIN Connect to Southern New Hampshire University Library Borrow this item from another library (Interlibrary Loan) FIND RELATED More Like This: Search for versions with same title and author I Advanced options Title: The influence of Italy on Edith Wharton Author(s): Dwight, Eleanor. Year: 1984 Description: ii, 491 leaves. Language: English SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: American literature - Italian influences, Named Person: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Geographic: Italy In literature. Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (leaves [479]-491) / Dissertation: Thesis (Ph. 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