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Feb 27, 2019 · Edith Wharton (b. 1862– d. 1937) was born Edith Newbold Jones to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander in New York City. Her upper-class family background and the wealthy New York world in which she was raised would influence the themes of her fiction, in which she both celebrated and critiqued the cultural norms of her ...
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 365 downloads. Xingu Edith Wharton 359 downloads. The Decoration of Houses Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman 319 downloads. The Reef Edith Wharton 308 downloads. The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 301 downloads. The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 301 downloads. The Reef Edith Wharton 289 downloads.
Feb 5, 2012 · Photograph from Estate of Edith Wharton / Beinecke Library, Yale University. The older I get, the more I’m convinced that a fiction writer’s oeuvre is a mirror of the writer’s character. It ...
Wharton, Edith (1862–1937) Acclaimed American writer whose novels, novellas and short stories meticulously document both high-society New York and Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the way in which lives are shaped and dominated by social strictures and community pressure . Name variations: Pussy; Lily.
Feb 11, 2007 · Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee. Chatto & Windus £25, pp864. When Ivy Compton-Burnett complained that people in real life were too flat, too blurry and nothing like definite enough to go straight ...
The Complete Works of Edith Wharton Welcomes Margaret Jay Jessee as Editor of Volume 8, The Valley of Decision. Margaret Jay Jessee is Associate Professor of English and Director of English Undergraduate Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century ...
Edith Newbold Jones also known as Edith Wharton was born on January 24, 1862, in America. She was the leading novelist, screenwriter, and designer of the twentieth century. She used her insider’s knowledge to portray the real living standards and morality of the Gilded Age.
