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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. 24, 1861. Like many other biographical facts, she k...

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 counterva...

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 stories...

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Born in New York in 1862 to elderly parents, Edith Wharton was raised in a family replete with socially prominent relatives. Wharton traveled abroad and married during a time of transition for women in America. The...

The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature, and one of the first to openly...

In the following essay, Waid traces the publication history of The House of Mirth from its origin as a serial in Scribner's magazine.

In the following essay, Moddelmog examines Wharton's narrative strategy of demonstrating the difficulties inherent in portraying female subjectivity by distancing herself, her other characters, and her readers from Lily's inner life.

In the following essay, Clubbe draws upon Wharton's interest in interior design to discuss her correlation in The House of Mirth between Lily's interior physical environments and the struggling development of her inner life.

This analysis of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth examines the issue of innocence as it pertains to the female protagonist. Lily's metamorphosis from innocent product of her society to self-aware individual, and her discovery of the truth, are explored in detail.

The House of Mirth is an intense novel that examines many things and brings out many morals. Edith Wharton brilliantly portrays the relationship between the characters and the society that rules them.

Edith Wharton's novel, The House of Mirth, entails a crucial turning point near the end of Book I, in which the protagonist, Lily Bart, presents herself in the Brys fashion show. Lily portrays herself as Reynolds' "Mrs. Lloyd", and her performance in the tableaux vivant scene is breathtaking.