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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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 Edith Wharton Quotes
1,015 words, approx. 3 pages
Edith Wharton ( 1862-01-24 – 1937-08-11 ) was an American novelist, short story writer and designer. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Age of Innocence (1920) 1.2 A Backward Glance (1934) 2 Unsourced 3 Misattributed 4 External links // Sourced There are two...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Wharton, Edith
604 words, approx. 2 pages(born Jan. 24, 1862, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 11, 1937, St.-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France) American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born. Edith Jones came of a... summary from source:
Wharton, Edith (Newbold)
151 words, approx. 1 pages(born Jan. 24, 1862, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France) U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Born into upper-class society, she began writing a few years after her marriage in 1885. She... summary from source:
 Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) Summary
132 words, approx. 1 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:
 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....
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 Biography Wharton, Edith: Edith Wharton.(Book review)
06/22/2007: 378 words, approx. 1 pages Wharton, Edith Edith Wharton. Hermione Lee. New York: Knopf/London: Chatto and Windus, 2007. 869 pp. $35.00. "Although it's obvious that Lee feels a deep affection for both Wharton the writer and the person (yet, admirably, rarely shies away from presenting her less... summary from source:
National Review The Letters of Edith Wharton.
09/16/1988: 884 words, approx. 3 pages The Letters of Edith Wharton ASIDE FROM one letter written when she was 12, no correspondence of Edith Wharton (1862-1937) survives before that to her publishers twenty years later. Her first surviving private letters date from six years later still, when she... summary from source:
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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.”
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 88%Edith Wharton's View of Society's Hold on Men
6,035 words, approx. 20 pages
Even though the characters in Edith Wharton's novels The Age of Innocence and Summer are dissatisfied with their orthodox lifestyle, they know the title of "outcast" is an even heavier burden to bear. In the novel The Age of Innocence, Old New York stifles the individual development of young Newland Archer. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 88%Comparitive Essay
3,194 words, approx. 11 pages
If a woman is a victim of one thing, she is often vulnerable of other sources of shame due to a low self esteem. The female protagonists in Edith Wharton's Summer and Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is victims of society due to their social and economic statuses.
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Essay Grade: 86%Summer's Symbolism
1,174 words, approx. 4 pages
Throughout the novel, Summer, Edith Wharton uses symbolism in the characters, their actions, the setting, and images. By using this literary technique, Edith Wharton portrays feelings and ideas to the reader without using the narrator.
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