Edith Newbold Wharton (/ˈhwɔːrtən/; née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's...
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The Age of Innocence (category Novels by Edith Wharton)
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...
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The House of Mirth (category Novels by Edith Wharton)
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...
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The Buccaneers (category Novels by Edith Wharton)
Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The story is set in the 1870s, around the time Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the...
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known for having a mid-life affair with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton. William Morton Fullerton was born in Norwich, Connecticut on 18 September...
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Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class...
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another of Edith Wharton's aunts, Mary Mason Jones, who built a large mansion at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, then undeveloped. Wharton portrays her...
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The Glimpses of the Moon The Glimpses of the Moon is a 1922 novel by Edith Wharton. The novel has been compared with The House of Mirth (1905) and explores...
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The Age of Innocence (1993 film) (category Films based on works by Edith Wharton)
Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel by Edith Wharton, is by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle...
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country house in Lenox, Massachusetts, the home of noted American author Edith Wharton, who designed the house and its grounds and considered it her "first...
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