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Thomas Wharton Jones (9 January 1808 – 7 November 1891) [ 2] was a ophthalmologist and physiologist of the 19th century. Biography. Jones's father was Richard Jones, a native of London. Richard Jones had moved north to St Andrews and was working with Her Majesty's Customs for Scotland when Thomas Wharton Jones was born in January 1808.
Edith Wharton ( / ˈhwɔːrtən /; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
At age 17, Edith Jones “came out” into society, making the rounds of dances and parties in Newport and New York, observing the rituals of her privileged world, a world she would later gleefully skewer in her fiction.
- Edith Wharton almost died of typhoid fever when she was 9 years old. Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862 in New York City, Wharton toured Europe as a child with her parents and two older brothers.
- Edith Wharton’s 28-year marriage was a tumultuous one. In 1885, when she was 23 years old, Edith married Edward (Teddy) Robbins Wharton at Manhattan’s Trinity Chapel Complex.
- Edith Wharton designed her palatial country house in Massachusetts. When Wharton wasn’t traveling through Italy or France with Teddy, the couple resided in Newport, Rhode Island until 1901.
- Edith Wharton published her first novel when she was 40. Wharton had published poetry and short stories before The Valley of Decision came out in 1902.
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- August 11, 1937
- January 24, 1862
- The Age of Innocence.
- Ethan Frome.
- The House of Mirth.
- The Custom of the Country.
Aug 15, 2016 · The Secret Love of Edith Wharton’s Life. On the Mystery of Walter Van Rensselaer Berry. By Yvonne Georgina Puig. August 15, 2016. In 1883, a young redheaded Edith Newbold Jones spent the summer in Bar Harbor, Maine, hiking and canoeing with a young fellow named Walter Van Rensselaer Berry.
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American author. Edith Wharton, American author, chronicled the life of upper-class Americans between the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. She is best known for her novels The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence. Childhood. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, on January 24, probably in 1861.
