Edith Wharton’s 1934 autobiography, “A Backward Glance,” glances a bit more carefully at some things than others. She gives her close friend and fellow literary lion Henry James a chapter, but names her husband of 28 years exactly once. “The Shadow of a Doubt,” a full-length 1901 play that got close to a Broadway opening before foundering under murky circumstances. It was all but forgotten — which is perhaps what Wharton had intended — until two scholars unearthed a script in 2016. “Their work is so spread out that there’s a lot we still don’t know about.”

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Persons: Edith Wharton’s, Henry James a, James, Wharton, Mary Chinery, Laura Rattray, Harry Ransom, ” Chinery, “, ” Organizations: Georgian Court University, University of Glasgow, Harry, University of Texas, Austin Locations: New Jersey