{
  "id": 12114324,
  "title": "Revisiting an Unsung 100-Year-Old Novel From an Intellectual New York Family",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/revisiting-an-unsung-100-year-old-novel-from-an-intellectual-new-york",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-05T09:09:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Literary Hub",
    "slug": "literary-hub",
    "url": "https://lithub.com/revisiting-an-unsung-100-year-old-novel-from-an-intellectual-new-york-family/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On a recent visit to an Upper East Side Manhattan home, an extraordinary dollhouse captured my attention. Built in 1916 and continuously redecorated until 1935, the dollhouse belonged to the Stettheimer sisters - Carrie, Florine, and Ettie. The Stettheimer sisters were influential artists and intellectuals, whose salon attracted notable avant-garde artists and thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.\n\nCarrie's dollhouse miniature captures the lavish world of her family, filled with plush beds, gilded headboards, silk sheets, and a private elevator. The art collection, featuring cubist paintings, works by Gaston Lachaise, Marguerite Zorach, and Marcel Duchamp's iconic \"Nude Descending a Staircase !\" displayed salon-style on a striped floor, highlights Carrie's status as an avant-garde doyenne.\n\nLess known than her sisters, Ettie (1875-1955) published a rare book under the pseudonym \"Henrie Waste\" - \"Love Days\" (1923). The novel guides readers through the Stettheimer sisters' fabulous world and the interior spaces of a troubled woman's mind. Ettie's alter ego, Henrie Waste, first appeared in 1917 with the publication of \"Philosophy: An Autobiographical Fragment,\" a young woman's account of pursuing a Ph.D. in Germany at the turn of the century.",
  "summary": "I recently visited a house on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Despite its hospitable interiors, I wasn’t invited inside. I wandered around in the dark, peering through the windows like a voyeur. I couldn’t believe what I saw. I dreamed of",
  "key_points": [
    "Stettheimer sisters' dollhouse built 1916, continuously redecorated until 1935",
    "Carrie Stettheimer's dollhouse miniature depicts lavish family world",
    "Ettie Stettheimer published 'Love Days' (1923) under pseudonym Henrie Waste"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}