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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.
- The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by American author Edith...
- Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton....
- The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author...
- The House of Mirth
May 24, 2024 · Edith Wharton (born January 24, 1862, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France) was an American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a tightly controlled society at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage. Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of America’s greatest writers.
The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company.
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Mar 31, 2020 · Learn about the life and works of Edith Wharton, an American writer who criticized the Gilded Age society and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Explore her early years, marriages, travels, and achievements in literature and design.
The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society around the end of the 19th century. [a] The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a lonely existence on the margins of society.
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Life Story: Edith Wharton (1862–1937) Socialite and Novelist The story of a novelist who wrote critically about New York’s high society during the Gilded Age.
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