Bunner Sisters

Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton - "e;Bunner Sisters,"e; written in 1892 but not published until 1916 in Xingu and Other Stories, takes place in a shabby neighborhood in New York City. The two Bunner sisters, Ann Eliza the elder, and Evelina the younger, keep a small shop selling artificial flowers and small handsewn articles to Stuyvesant Square's "e;female population."e;Ann Eliza gives Evelina a clock for her birthday. The clock leads the sisters to become involved with Herbert Ramy, owner of "e;the queerest little store you ever laid eyes on."e; Soon Ramy is a regular guest of the Bunner sisters, who realize that their "e;treadmill routine,"e; once so comfortable, is now "e;intolerably monotonous."e;