No one panic, but do frost the grapes on your hat because a somewhat exacting guest by the name of Pussy Jones – A.K.A. Edith Wharton – is coming to dinner. Summoned by Lauren Collins, the author of When in French: Love in a Second Language and a staff writer for The New Yorker, Edith Wharton is coming all the way from the Gilded Age – so the least Emma could do was meet Monica and Lauren in Paris for a live recording near Wharton’s apartment on Rue Varenne. The New York “aristocrat” and author of The House of Mirth (1905), The Age of Innocence (1920, for which she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer for Literature in 1921), Wharton pulled no punches in her chronicling of her country’s fin-de-siècle elites. She moved to France in 1907 and stayed until her death in 1937; so it’s only fitting that this is where we will host a fantastical dinner party in her honour, complete with cold champagne, burning questions, and a certain amount of hilarity.

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Monica Ainley DLV @monicaainleyDLV

Emma Knight @emmalknight

Lauren Collins @laurenzcollins

Lauren is the author of When in French: Love in a Second Language and a staff writer for The New Yorker

Dinner with Edith Wharton playlist on Spotify by DJ Monica DLV

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