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Edith Wharton | | Birth Date: |
January 24, c. 1861 | | Death Date: |
August 11, 1937 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Place of Death: |
Paris, France | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Edith Wharton
398 words, approx. 1 pages
 Edith Wharton (1861-1937), American author, chronicled the life of affluent Americans between the Civil War and World War I. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, probably on Jan. 24, 1861. Like many other biographical facts, she... summary from source:
Biography of Edith Wharton
11,246 words, approx. 38 pages
 While at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the masses, particularly during the Jazz Age and the Depression, a... summary from source:
 Biography of Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton
10,899 words, approx. 36 pages
Perhaps the most striking thing about Edith Wharton 's reputation as a novelist is the fact that she has been "reclaimed" so many times. This fact seems all the more remarkable when one reflects that before her death in 1937, her novels and short...
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 Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) Summary
132 words, approx. 0 pagesEdith Wharton, one of the most successful American novelists of her time, wrote twenty-five novels and novellas as well as eighty-six short stories. Her Age of Innocence (1920), about Old New York society, won a Pulitzer prize, and she was the first... summary from source:
 Wharton, Edith Summary
28,504 words, approx. 95 pagesBest known as a novelist of manners, Wharton chronicled the cruel excesses of American genteel society both at home and abroad at the beginning of the twentieth century in works ranging from The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911) to The Age... summary from source:
 Edith Wharton - (1862 - 1937) Summary
20,131 words, approx. 67 pagesEdith Wharton - (1862 - 1937) (Full name Edith Newbold Jones Wharton) American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and autobiographer. Wharton is best known as a novelist of manners whose fiction detailed the cruel excesses of aristocratic society... summary from source:
 Edith Wharton Information
1,890 words, approx. 6 pages
Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 – August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. <sup id="cite_ref-obit_0-0"...
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7/17/2007: 283 words, approx. 1 pagesIf New York City still looked like an Edith Wharton novel, with women in big dresses settling down with men in tall hats, photographer Taryn Simon and filmmaker Jake Paltrow (son of Blythe, brother of Gwyneth) would be a dandy 30-ish power couple. Late last... summary from source:
AP-Travel Online Literary Pilgrimage in Upstate New York
9/11/2006: 1,482 words, approx. 5 pages Twin baby grand pianos stand in the living room of a white clapboard farmhouse high on the Taconic Ridge on the border of New York and Massachusetts. Here the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay composed and played...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Donna M. Campbell
6,176 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Campbell maintains that in Edith Wharton's “Mrs. Manstey's View” and Bunner Sisters the author “interfuses the city landscapes of naturalism with the potent iconography and themes of local color, providing a chilling commentary upon the limitations of local color fiction in a naturalistic world that encroaches upon the threatens its ideals.”
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 Essay Grade: 92%Historical Essay on Edith Wharton
696 words, approx. 2 pages
The works of Edith Wharton, including her classic "Ethan Frome," reflected how society was quickly changing during the early 20th century.
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