Our song was inspired by the character of Lily Bart from Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel The House of Mirth. Our initial goal was to provide lyrical form to Wharton’s examination of a “society so materialistic and self-serving that it casually destroys what is most beautiful and blameless within it." Along the way we were confronted by the many tragic depictions of female protagonists in classic literature. With that legacy in mind we offer Lily a new lease on life and a fate different than the one prescribed by literary conventions of the Victorian era.

House Of Mirth

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