Edith Wharton
(1862 - 1937)
(Full name Edith Newbold Jones Wharton) American short story writer, novelist, critic, autobiographer, travel writer, and poet.
Edith Wharton: Introduction
Edith Wharton: P...
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Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)
Edith 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 (19...
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Edith 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 ...
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The breadth of Edith Wharton's achievement makes definition of her place in literary history difficult. For fifty years she wrote prolifically, and her audience ranged from scholars to readers of popu...
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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...
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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, particul...
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Although Edith Wharton is better known as a novelist than a short-story writer, she was in fact writing and publishing stories well before her debut as a novelist in 1902. Her first published story ...
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Henry James observed in an August 1902 letter to Edith Wharton's sister-in-law, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, that Wharton "must be tethered in native pastures, even if it reduces her to a back-yard in New Y...
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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...
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During the early decades of the twentieth century--at a time when New York City could ban women from smoking in public--one American woman published works which discussed love outside of marriage, sca...
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Biography EssayWhile 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 mas...
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Acclaimed author Edith Wharton was born in 1862, and published her first acclaimed novel, Ethan Frome, in 1911. During her lifetime, Wharton was inspired by numerous events that took place over the p...
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Summer's Symbolism
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 feel...
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Female Victims in Literature
Women are victims of prey. Anything can bring shame to a person and make them feel small and unimportant. Society often views women as being lesser than males, and are ...
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As human beings there comes a point in our lives when we must decide our own destiny. Regardless of social pressures, ultimately the choice of one's fate is left in the hands of the individual. ...
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Wharton, Edith
Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)
Edith Wharton - (1862 - 1937)
Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
