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Seeing Wharton Through Scorsese’s Lens: Fidelity and the Blonde Siren in The Age of Innocence (1993)
The otherwise remarkably faithful adaptation, however, makes an incongruent turn when Scorsese reverses Wharton’s color casting of the two female protagonists by portraying Ellen Olenska and May Welland as blonde[…]


Meg Hansen is a locally syndicated columnist, poet, and Dartmouth College graduate (MA '14) based in Vermont. She also studied fashion and medicine in Florence, Italy, and India (MBBS) respectively. She was born in India, and boarded her first flight at 7 months. Her essays and poetry have appeared in





