In a story by this author, a woman greeted in the afterlife by the Spirit of Life chooses to spend eternity with her annoying, creaky-booted husband instead of a “kindred soul” because “it would break his heart not to find me here.” This author wrote about a man who imagines a domestic scene with a pianola and a copy of Ben-Hur after his wife pours cognac in his coffee even though he doesn’t take it that way. William Dean Howells loved a story by this author in which the obsessive housekeeping regime of Jane (-5[1])ironically saves the marriage of her parents. Waythorn obsesses about the ex-husbands of his wife Alice in this author’s story “The (*) Other Two,” collected in her “New York Stories” along with “Roman (10[1]-5[1])Fever.” (10[7])For 10 points, the domestic stories of what (10[1])author depict a similar Gilded Age milieu as her novel The House of Mirth? (10[1])■END■