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Edith Wharton

biographical notes, study guides, web links and commentary

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Edith Wharton biography

July 8, 2011 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

writer, traveller, socialite, gardener, interior designer 1862. Edith Newbold Jones born into wealthy 'old money' family in New York. Her childhood nickname was 'Pussy Jones'. 1866. Following … [Read more...]

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Edith Wharton criticism

May 9, 2015 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

annotated bibliography of criticism and comment Edith Wharton criticism is a bibliography of critical comment on Wharton and her works, with details of each publication and a brief description of its … [Read more...]

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Edith Wharton short stories

March 13, 2014 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

tutorials, critical commentary, and study resources Edith Wharton published more than eighty short stories during her writing career. The exact number is debatable, because some are so long (such as … [Read more...]

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Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life

July 6, 2011 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

writer, traveller, socialite, gardener, interior designer Edith Wharton is a writer whose life and work spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - rather like Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and even … [Read more...]

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Ethan Frome

July 12, 2011 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links Edidth Wharton wrote the first version of Ethan Frome in French, as an exercise for her tutor and gave it the title Hiver (1907). It consisted of … [Read more...]

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Madame de Treymes

July 1, 2014 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

tutorial, commentary, study resources, plot, and web links Madame de Treymes was published in 1907. It was Edith Wharton's first major work after the success of The House of Mirth which had been … [Read more...]

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Summer

August 30, 2015 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

tutorial, commentary, study resources, and plot summary Summer was written in what Edith Wharton described as 'a high pitch of creative joy' in 1917, and was first published by D. Appleton later the … [Read more...]

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The Age of Innocence

July 24, 2011 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

tutorial, commentary, study resources, video, and web links The Age of Innocence (1920) is perhaps Edith Wharton's most famous novel. It was written immediately after the First World War, when she … [Read more...]

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The Custom of the Country

July 20, 2011 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links The Custom of the Country (1913) presents a central character who ignores any positive influences which surround her, and always does the wrong … [Read more...]

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The Glimpses of the Moon

June 24, 2014 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

tutorial, commentary, study resources, plot, and web links The Glimpses of the Moon was first published in 1922 by D. Appleton and Company. It is one of the least well known of Edith Wharton's full … [Read more...]

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The House of Mirth

July 12, 2011 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

tutorial, commentary, study resources, further reading The House of Mirth (1905) was Edith Wharton's first major success as a novelist. She had published short stories before, and even a best-seller … [Read more...]

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The novels of Edith Wharton

June 3, 2013 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was a prolific and very successful American novelist of the early twentieth century whose critical reputation faded somewhat under the impact of literary modernism … [Read more...]

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The Reef

September 4, 2011 by Roy Johnson Leave a Comment

tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links The Reef (1913) is amongst the finest of Edith Wharton's lesser-known works. She is best known for The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of … [Read more...]

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