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"Bunner Sisters," written in 1892 but not published until 1916 in Xingu and Other Stories, takes place in a shabby neighborhood in New York City. The two Bunner sisters, Ann Eliza the elder, and Evelina the younger, keep a small shop selling artificial flowers and small handsewn articles to Stuyvesant Square's "female population."Ann Eliza gives Evelina a clock for her birthday. The clock leads the sisters to become involved with Herbert Ramy, owner of "the queerest little store you ever laid eyes on." Soon Ramy is a regular guest of the Bunner sisters, who realize that their "treadmill routine," once so comfortable, is now "intolerably monotonous."

Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner have never been apart. Unmarried, the sisters fill their days making hats in their millinery shop, located on the seedy side of New York City, and their evenings quietly in their apartment. But when Ann Eliza buys Evelina a clock that does not work for her birthday, the sisters commence a relationship with Herman Ramsay, setting in motion a series of events that will prove to be everyone’s undoing.

"Among the novelists whose work must be counted into the sum of English literature." -New Outlook "Pleasing...dealing with old New York and two middle-aged women who kept a little shop in Stuyvesant Square." -The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer "Edith Wharton is a prose writer par excellence." -Review of Reviews "Mrs. Wharton dawned upon our ignorant but eager appreciation, a little bewildering to our immaturity because she was so mature and sophisticated. Henry James and Meredith had educated us to read her intelligently (though we had only begun to read them), and if our admiration was boyish it was genuine. I remember distinctly the emotions of surprise and delight at the appearance of a new writer, an American writer, whose first work showed the competence and finish of a practiced hand. Then followed, at intervals sufficiently long to indicate careful workmanship, now a novel, now a collection of short stories, all of unvarying excellence. But there was another sense in which the work was unvarying, another interpretation of the moderate rate of production. Though the plots were ingenious, original, not cast in one mold, the kind of life so acutely and deeply studied was a limited, even thin, upper layer of society....Mrs. Wharton is at once direct and subtle. She unfolds with perfect lucidity the complexities of human nature. Her sentences are so beautifully sequential that sometimes a passage seems to straighten out, tense and flexible, like a taut wire; and the vibration is the sound of life." -John Macy, The Dial "As the success of the women in keeping new aspirants out of drawing-room and country house has always been greater than the success of the men in keeping them out of Wall Street, the aboriginal aristocracy in Mrs. Wharton's novels transacts its affairs for the most part in drawing-room and country house....Novels written out of this conception of existence fall ordinarily into partisanship, either on the side of the individual who leaves his herd or on the side of the herd which runs him down or shuts him out for good. Mrs. Wharton has always been singularly unpartisan, as if she recognized it as not duty of hers to do more for the herd or its members than to play over the spectacle of their clashes the long, cold light of her magnificent irony....The illusion of reality in her work almost never fails her, so alertly is her mind on the lookout to avoid vulgar or shoddy romantic elements. Compared to Henry James, her principal master in fiction, whom she resembles in respect to subjects and attitudes...she has more intelligence than he. Compared to Jane Austen, the novelist among Anglo-Saxon women whom Mrs. Wharton most resembles, particularly as regards satire and decorum, she is the more impassioned of the two. It may seem at first thought a little strange to compare the vivid novels of the author of 'The House of Mirth' with the mouse-colored narratives of the author of 'Pride and Prejudice,' for the twentieth century has added to all fiction many overtones not heard in the eighteenth. But of no other woman writer since Jane Austen can it be said quite so truthfully as of Mrs. Wharton that her natural, instinctive habitat is a true tower of irony." -The Nation

The Bunner sisters were proud of the neatness of their shop and content with its humble prosperity. It was not what they had once imagined it would be, but though it presented but a shrunken image of their earlier ambitions it enabled them to pay their rent and keep themselves alive and out of debt; and it was long since their hopes had soared higher.

In a sad street in a poor neighborhoodin the suburbs of New Yorkthey share work and lifeTwo sisters, Ann Eliza and Evelina.Both deal witha gray and dark haberdashery in whose backroom they waste theirsad stocks.One day, on the occasion of his birthday,Ann gives her sister a watch that they placein an old ramshackle shelfto be able to put someHourly knowledge in your life.This humble object will be the causethat the foundationson those who settleTheir lives start to falter.