VERIFIED HISTORICAL CLAIM

Soot and cabbage in a hotel bedroom, in a 1922 novel

In Edith Wharton's novel The Glimpses of the Moon (1922), the heroine, alone in London, loathes her hideous hotel bedroom, with the smell of soot and cabbage coming through the window.

Scope

A depiction in a novel published in 1922; it shows how a hotel bedroom the heroine loathes was written about, not a record of a real hotel, and says nothing about hotel rooms today.

How this was found

Historical text. A published historical text, read on a digitised page; it records what was written when it was published.

Source: historical record · literary work (novel, poem or play).

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Historical passage checked

The Glimpses of the Moon, p. 192 Printed page 192 is image 202 of the digitised volume.Published 1922, the latest time it can describe; not the present. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes. Checked 2026-10-19.