Tante

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 649 words | Copyright

Tante, novel by Anne Sedgwick, published in 1911.

Madame Okraska, a great concert pianist, insists upon adoration from her young protégée, Karen Woodruff, who blindly admires her as her “Tante.” While the pianist is absent on an American tour, Karen marries Gregory Jardine, a conventional Englishman, but their happy life together ends when the hatred of the older woman for Jardine causes Karen to leave him. Madame Okraska's latest lover, Drew, wearies of her and falls in love with Karen, at which the older woman in a fury turns upon her. Karen realizes the true character of her tyrannical mentor and returns to Jardine.

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