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en-wikipedia-org-395		Edith Wharton - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	9113	1155	78	American children's stories containing slang were forbidden in Wharton's childhood home.[71] This included such popular authors as Mark Twain, Bret Harte or "Uncle Remus." She was allowed to read Louisa May Alcott but Wharton preferred Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Charles Kingsley's Water Babies.[71] Wharton's mother forbade her from reading many novels and Wharton said she "read everything else but novels until the day of my marriage." [71] Instead Wharton read the classics, philosophy, history, and poetry in her father's library including Daniel Defoe, John Milton, Thomas Carlyle, Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Jean Racine, Thomas Moore, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, John Ruskin, and Washington Irving.[72] Biographer Hermione Lee describes Wharton as having read herself "out of Old New York" and her influences included Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, T.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-395.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-395.txt