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	Edith Wharton - MSN Encarta
		Edith Wharton (1862-1937), American writer, known for her portraits of manners and mores at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.
		Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to a wealthy New York City family, and was educated by tutors in New York City and in Europe, where her family traveled extensively.
		Wharton also wrote non-fiction, such as Italian Backgrounds (1905), one of several books of travel writing; The Decoration of Houses (1897), a watershed work on the field of interior decoration that she cowrote with architect Ogden Codman, Jr.; and The Writing of Fiction (1925), a piece of literary criticism.
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	Edith Wharton
		Wharton's central themes were the conflict between social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the 'nouveau riche', who had made their fortunes in more recent years.
		Wharton's role as a wife with social responsibilities and her writing ambitions resulted in nervous collapse, and she was advised that writing might help her recover.
		Wharton's work was regarded from her death into the 1970s as anti-modernist, and did not gain the popularity of Henry James, but biographies and movies, such as Martin Scorsese's adaptation of her novel The Age of Innocence (1993), arose new interest in her work.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /wharton.htm (1608 words)

	Edith Wharton - Books and Biography
		Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born in New York, N.Y., into a wealthy and socially prominent family.
		Wharton's role as a wife with social responsibilities and her writing ambitions resulted in nervous collapse.
		Wharton's work was regarded from her death into the 1970s as anti-modernist, but biographies and movies, such as Martin Scorsese's adaptation of her novel The Age of Innocence (1993), arose new interest in her work.
	www.readprint.com /author-89/Edith-Wharton (1142 words)

	Edith Wharton
		Edith Jones belonged to the small, most fashionable society of New York which lived on inherited wealth and were interrelated.
		Wharton was both a participant of fashionable society and an observer of its kaleidoscopic changes in New York, in Newport (where she had summered in her childhood and had her own house after her marriage) and later in Lenox, Massachusetts, where she built her own country house, The Mount, in 1902.
		Wharton's diary reveals her joy in their passionate lovemaking and in the intellectual communion she felt with him, all of which had been so painfully missing in her marriage.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/wharton/whar3.htm (1160 words)

	Edith Wharton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born Edith Newbold Jones, to a wealthy New York family often associated with the phrase Keeping up with the Joneses, Edith combined her insights into the privileged classes with her natural wit to write novels and short fiction which are notable for their humor, incisiveness, and uneventfullness.
		Wharton was friend and confidante to many gifted intellectuals of her time: Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway were all guests of hers at one time or another.
		Edith Wharton was also highly regarded as a landscape architect and a taste-maker of her time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edith_Wharton (1144 words)

	Edith Wharton's World
		Edith was privately educated, read widely in her father's "gentleman's library," and grew up amidst genteel surroundings as a prim and proper little lady.
		Edith Jones's eyes were opened to the potential of the broader world during frequent youthful tours of Europe with her family.
		Wharton recalls "lying there hushed in your arms, as the waves of rapture receded." It is a side of the patrician author unknown until a few years ago.
	antiquesandthearts.com /archive/wharton.htm (2321 words)

	Wharton
		Wharton was privately educated and began at an early age to write, a habit viewed by her family as unsuitable for a woman of her social class and as an eccentricity best ignored and left undiscussed.
		Wharton divorced her husband in 1913 due to his mental condition, his carelessness with money, and his numerous extra-marital affairs.
		The large number of Wharton's letters to Fullerton for which no date could be determined were arranged by the type of stationery on which they were written in the hope that a Wharton scholar familiar with her letter writing habits may be able to attribute possible dates for these items.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/wharton.html (1172 words)

	Edith Wharton in the News
		Wharton, who died in 1937 at the age of 75, is said to still haunt her estate, called The Mount, sending indoor temperatures icy when she appears.
		This crumbling castle, built in 1853 for an aunt of Gilded Age chronicler Edith Wharton - the spinster Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones - it is said to have been the origin of the expression, "keeping up with the Joneses," because, when it was built, the neighbors rushed to gussy up their own millionaire manors.
		In Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence," which is set in the 1870s, society ritually congregates at the Academy of Music, on the northeast corner of 14th Street and Irving Place.
	edithwharton.blogspot.com (984 words)

	Wharton_Edith_ny1
		Edith Wharton was born to Lucretia Rhinelander Jones and George Frederic Jones on January 24, 1862 in New York City.
		Edith Wharton died on August 11, 1937 at the age of 75 from an apoplectic stroke.
		Wharton was also quite an outspoken critic of men, and a large number of the men in her stories appear weak or foolish.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/wharton_edith_ny1.htm (1094 words)

	Edith Wharton - Biography and Works
		Wharton's central subjects were the conflict between social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the 'nouveau riche', who had made their fortunes in more recent years.
		Edith Wharton was born on January 24, 1862 in New York, into a wealthy and socially prominent family.
		The Whartons were divorced in 1913 and Edith spent the rest of her life in France.
	www.online-literature.com /wharton (515 words)

	Edith Wharton - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, during the American Civil War, into a world that could hardly have been more discouraging of her desire to be a writer.
		Edith's mother, a notoriously commanding and aloof woman to whom the birth of her daughter relatively late in life was an embarrassment, was perpetually critical and disapproving of her daughter's intellectual ambitions.
		Edith Wharton's interior life is known best through her letters to many treasured friends, through their reminiscences of her, and through the miracle of her writing.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000017808,00.html (1008 words)

	Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
		One issue students are very interested in is sexuality in Wharton's fiction, ranging from what birth control was available at the time and in the class she wrote about to what her own attitudes toward sex were.
		Wharton's fictive world tells us a lot about how the whole culture works and what it values and is supposed to value.) Finally, a question that often gets asked is "What other works by Wharton would you recommend reading?" A good sign.
		Wharton was a best-selling author at the turn of the century and into the 1920s; she was also highly acclaimed by critics.
	www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/wharton.html (970 words)

	Pathfinder: Edith Wharton
		Edith Wharton is regarded as one of the major American writers of the twentieth century.
		Edith Wharton was profoundly affected by the societal changes that accompanied the political and economic upheaval of her lifetime, and it is her depiction of the effects of society upon the individual for which she perhaps is best remembered.
		Edith Wharton was a remarkably prolific writer, producing on average one volume a year between the publication of her first book in 1897 (The Decoration of Houses, written with Ogden Codman Jr.) and her death in 1937.
	ils.unc.edu /dpr/path/wharton/index.html (4010 words)

	Amazon.com: The House of Mirth (Signet Classics): Books: Edith Wharton,Anna Quindlen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem.
		Edith Wharton's "The House Of Mirth" is a sad, but brilliant commentary on the closed, repressive society of the rich, upper class, New York nobility, at the dawn of the 20th century.
		Wharton creates a complete picture of turn-of-the-century New York society and its "important" people--their lack of scruples, their opportunism, their manipulations, and their smug self-importance, characteristics one may also see in Lily when she is part of this society, though there is a limit on how far she will stoop.
	www.amazon.com /House-Mirth-Edith-Wharton/dp/0451527569 (3635 words)

	Edith Wharton - Free Online Library
		Edith Wharton was born in New York, N.Y., into a wealthy and socially prominent family.
		Although Edith maintained a residence in the U.S. after her divorce in 1913, she continued to live in France, where she spent the rest of her life.
		Wharton campaigned to win James the Nobel Prize for Literature and secretly diverted some of her own royalties to James to help him with his financial worries.
	wharton.thefreelibrary.com (1219 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Edith Wharton
		Wharton eventually turned to writing for a measure of fulfillment as she grew dissatisfied with the roles of wife and society matron.
		Edith Wharton's classic tale of social mores in early-20th-century New York focuses on the travails of Lily Bart, a ravishing young woman who lacks a fortune of her own and needs to find a wealthy husband in order to secure her position.
		Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/EdithWhartoneBooks.htm (1878 words)

	Edith Wharton, author of "Ethan Frome" and "The Age of Innocence"
		Edith Wharton was educated at home by a governess, and in her spare time read widely: every thing from Lewis Carroll to Charles Darwin.
		Edith Wharton wrote eight novels after The Age of Innocence (seven-and-a-half really, the last was unfinished at the time of her death), but she never again scaled its dizzy heights.
		Edith Wharton was a superb writer of supernatural tales, and included in the last volume are such classics as ‘Afterward’, ‘The Lady’s Maid’s Bell’ and ‘Pomegranate Seed’ (I was less impressed by the much-anthologised ‘The Eyes’).
	www.kruse.demon.co.uk /wharton.htm (3666 words)

	PAL: Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
		Wharton is today recognized as a major writer of the first two decades of the twentieth century.
		Davis, Joy L. "The Ritual of Dining in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence." Midwest Quarterly 34.4 (Sumr 1993): 465(16).
		"Wharton's `The Angel at the Grave' and the Glories of Transcendentalism: Deciduous or Evergreen?" ATQ 6.1 (Mar 1992): 47(11).
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap7/wharton.html (1078 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Edith Wharton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to George and Lucretia Jones in New York City on January 24, 1862.
		Slowly, Wharton grew dissatisfied with the roles of wife and society matron.
		Also, Wharton had met and fallen in love with Morton Fullerton and had been sexually awakened as a 46 year old woman living virtually on her own in Paris.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_edith_wharton.html (451 words)

	Classic Authors: Edith Wharton
		Edith Jones became Edith Wharton when she married Robbins Wharton, a Boston banker, in 1885.
		Although Edith had written a novella as a teenager, she did not publish her first book until she was 35 years old.
		For her efforts, Edith Wharton became one of the first women to receive the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/840/25154 (438 words)

	Edith Wharton
		On Wharton's ambivalent feelings about the reading public and the market economy for literary work "'For the use of the magazine morons': Edith Wharton rewrites the tale of the fantastic," orig.
		"Edith Wharton and the Faubourg Saint-Germain: the diary of the Abbe Mugnier," orig.
		Inness, Sherrie A. On the importance of the indoors for Wharton as illustrated by her attention to domestic servants, in Edith Wharton's short stories.
	www.literaryhistory.com /20thC/Wharton.htm (714 words)

	Edith Wharton Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York, 1862.
		Her marriage to Edward Robbins Wharton was one filled with unhappiness and difficulties resulting from the writer's nervous illnesses and her husband's problems with his mental state.
		In between, Wharton had begun to engage in social functions, meeting such literary accolytes as Henry James with whom she struck up a good friendship.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/56 (573 words)

	The First Lady Celebrates Edith Wharton
		Bush spoke at The Mount, the 50-acre estate that was Wharton's home during the early 1900s, to honor the return of the author's personal library from England.
		The Edith Wharton Restoration (EWR) organization purchased Wharton's collection of 2,600 books for $2.6 million—that's $1,000 per book—from a British rare-book dealer who had owned the collection since 1984.
		Edith Wharton grew up in a society known as "Old New York," during a time when women were discouraged from having careers.
	teacher.scholastic.com /scholasticnews/indepth/firstladyreading.asp (447 words)

	Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, a Boston banker; after the first few years of marriage Edward Wharton became mentally ill, and the burden of caring for him fell upon his wife.
		Finally, in 1913, after she had settled permanently in France, Edith Wharton terminated the marriage by divorce.
		Wharton is also the author of travel books (e.g., Italian Backgrounds, 1905), literary criticism, and poetry.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wh/WhartonE.html (485 words)

	Fiction: Edith Wharton
		Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born in New York City into a family of wealth and high social standing.
		As she got older, however, she felt the pressures her society exerted upon women to conform to traditional roles, and she married Edward Wharton in 1885 — an unhappy marriage that ended in divorce in 1913.
		During World War I, Wharton was extremely involved in humanitarian work in France, for which she received the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/wharton.htm (282 words)

	Edith Wharton
		Wharton probably has not suffered the same level of doubt of her work as some other women writers, in part because of her Pulitzer Prize.
		Wharton was divorced from her husband in 1913, in part because she and her husband had grown into separate lives, and in part because her husband had numerous infidelities.
		In The Descent of Man Wharton wrote, "A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue," perhaps she was referring to her own divorce.
	www.womenwriters.net /domesticgoddess/wharton1.htm (771 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| Edith Wharton
		Jones"; she married Teddy Wharton in 1884, and the marriage deteriorated rapidly, ending in divorce in 1913).
		Wharton is best known for her realist works The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome, but produced a small number of excellent supernaturalist stories, primarily in the psychological (Henry Jamesian) mode.
		This story was made into a TV movie as part of the "Shades of Darkness" series that aired on Grenada TV in the UK; for a brief note (which misidentifies the author), go here and scroll down the page.
	www.litgothic.com /Authors/wharton.html (422 words)

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