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Signature. Edith Wharton ( / ˈhwɔːrtən /; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
Jun 27, 2024 · Edith Wharton (born January 24, 1862, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France) was an American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a tightly controlled society at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage. Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of America’s greatest writers.
Jan 24, 2013 · Edith Wharton (Author of The Age of Innocence) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of Edith Wharton's books. Join Goodreads. more photos (1) Edith Wharton’s Followers (4,553) Born. in New York City, NY, The United States. January 24, 1862. Died. August 11, 1937. Genre. Fiction. Influences.
In 1921, Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her highly esteemed novel The Age of Innocence. She continued to write novels throughout the 1920s, and, in 1934, she wrote her autobiography, A Backward Glance. In 1937, after nearly half a century of devotion to the art of fiction, Edith Wharton died in her villa near Paris at the age of seventy-five.
Mar 31, 2020 · Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer. A daughter of the Gilded Age, she criticized the rigid societal constraints and thinly veiled immoralities of her society.
Socialite and Novelist. The story of a novelist who wrote critically about New York’s high society during the Gilded Age. Print Page. Edith Wharton. Fernand Paillet, Mrs. Edward Wharton (Edith Newbold Jones, 1862-1937), 1890. New-York Historical Society, Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié.
Apr 4, 2022 · A long series of masterful novels and stories followed, ironic, richly detailed, and capturing both the high comedy and the tragic contradictions of her world. Read a passage from A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton.
Edith Wharton had an insider's view of la belle époque, a time of majestic splendor between the turn of the century and the outbreak of war in 1914; she would live to see the Victorian age give way to the Modern, and Germany fall under the sway of Adolf Hitler.
A New York City aristocrat and the author of over 50 books, Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones) wrote poetry and fiction that explored high society life.
