Paragraph 1: The document provides background on Mabel Dodge, stating that she came from a wealthy family in Buffalo and received an elite education for women in the 19th century. Instead of college, she married and had a child but became a widow. She later traveled abroad and remarried an architect from Boston named Edwin Dodge.
Paragraph 2: Dodge goes on to discuss how she became interested in modern art and literature after moving to New York. She hosted salons at her home to bring together influential artists, writers and intellectuals of the time to discuss new ideas. Her goal was to make New York a cultural center like