SOURCE · HISTORICAL RECORD
Historical record · Literary work (novel, poem or play) — A historical text, cited for what it says, not as current science.
Edith Wharton · D. Appleton and Company
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Title, creator, publisher and date checked against the catalogue record on 2026-10-19 by an automated check. The Wikisource Index record (D. Appleton and Company, 1922) and the Wikimedia Commons record of the scan (Internet Archive item glimpsesofmoon00whariala) agree on the author, publisher and year; chapter 17 spans images 201–214. Date confirmed to the year. SmellBook publishes only the citation, the location of the passage and its own claim, never the work’s text.
Reviewed 2026-10-19 · corrections 0
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.
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.Source record SRC-WHARTON-1922
Permanent identifier smellbook:source:wharton-glimpses-of-the-moon-1922 · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-19.