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Signature. 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.
Jun 27, 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.
Mar 31, 2020 · Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer. A daughter of the Gilded Age, she criticized the rigid societal constraints and thinly veiled immoralities of her society.
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.
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 million...
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Jan 24, 2013 · Edith Wharton (Author of The Age of Innocence) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of Edith Wharton's books. Join Goodreads. more photos (1) Edith Wharton’s Followers (4,544) Born. in New York City, NY, The United States. January 24, 1862. Died. August 11, 1937. Genre. Fiction. Influences. Henry James, Jane Austen.
By critical and popular acclaim, Wharton is one of the nation’s finest writers. She is arguably its finest female writer. At one point the highest paid American fiction-writer of her time, she received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence (1920).
Mar 29, 2023 · His most recent publications include an essay in The New Wharton Studies (Cambridge UP), an article on Wharton’s short stories in Studies in American Naturalism, and an essay in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton.
Recent publications include “Edith Wharton and Law” in Critical Insights: Edith Wharton in Context, “Edith Wharton Online: Reimagining the Graduate Seminar” in Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels, “Social Protest Fiction” in The Blackwell Companion to American Literature 1820-1914, and “The Specter and the Spectator: Rebecca ...
