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   Edith Wharton (/ ˈ hw ɔːr t ən /; 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 .

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Edith-WhartonEdith Wharton | Biography, Books, Short Stories, & Facts

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   Apr 15, 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. Edith Jones came of a distinguished and long-established New York family.

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   Learn about the life and achievements of Edith Wharton, one of America's greatest writers and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Explore her childhood, marriage, divorce, war work, and literary legacy through her books and homes.

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     Edith Wharton in France | THE GREAT WAR | American Experience PBS

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2021/01/20 › t-magazineHow Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? - The New York Times

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   Jan 20, 2021 · Published in 1913, “The Custom of the Country” follows the social rise of Undine Spragg, a fictional character who, in many ways, feels very modern. An undated photograph of Edith Wharton ...

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7. www.edithwharton.org › aboutOur Mission - The Mount | Edith Wharton's Home

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   Visit the estate of Edith Wharton, the author of classics such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, and explore her legacy in art, design, and humanitarianism. The Mount offers historic tours, artistic and literary programs, outdoor sculpture, and a cafe in Lenox, MA.

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   Where did Edith Wharton live?

   • Edith Wharton moved permanently to France, Teddy returned to his sister’s home in Lenox. “Hasn’t it shaken all the foundations of reality for you?” In 1914, when World War I broke out, Edith Wharton was wealthy, famous, recently divorced, and living in her favorite city, Paris.

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   Who is Edith Wharton?

   • Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City.

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   Why did Edith Wharton leave the United States?

   • In 1914, when World War I broke out, Edith Wharton was wealthy, famous, recently divorced, and living in her favorite city, Paris. Instead of withdrawing to the safety of England or returning to the United States, Wharton chose to stay and devote herself to creating a complex network of charitable and humanitarian organizations.

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   When did Edith Wharton die?

   • In 1921, Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her highly esteemed novel The Age of Innocence. She continued to write novels throughout the 1920s, and, in 1934, she wrote her autobiography, A Backward Glance. In 1937, after nearly half a century of devotion to the art of fiction, Edith Wharton died in her villa near Paris at the age of seventy-five.

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9. www.newyorker.com › books › second-readWhat Edith Wharton Knew, a Century Ago, About Women and Fame ...

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   Sep 9, 2019 · What Edith Wharton Knew, a Century Ago, About Women and Fame in America. If Undine Spragg, the heroine of Wharton’s novel “The Custom of the Country,” were alive today, she would have a ...

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    Edith Wharton Biography. Edith Wharton was born Edith Jones into an upper-class New York City family in 1862. Typical for members of her class at that time, Edith had a distant relationship with her parents. She received a marriage proposal at a young age, but the wedding was ultimately thwarted by her prospective in-laws’ perception of the ...