Hermione Lee

Writer Edith Wharton resisted societal pressures to create great works of literature.

Biography documentary on the writer for "The Hours" DVD special features.

This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.