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    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...
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    The Age of Innocence (category Novels by Edith Wharton)
    The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in...
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    The House of Mirth (category Novels by Edith Wharton)
    The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to...
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  • The Buccaneers (category Novels by Edith Wharton)
    Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The story is set in the 1870s, around the time Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the...
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    known for having a mid-life affair with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton. William Morton Fullerton was born in Norwich, Connecticut on 18 September...
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    country house in Lenox, Massachusetts, the home of noted American author Edith Wharton, who designed the house and its grounds and considered it her "first...
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  • another of Edith Wharton's aunts, Mary Mason Jones, who built a large mansion at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, then undeveloped. Wharton portrays her...
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    The Glimpses of the Moon The Glimpses of the Moon is a 1922 novel by Edith Wharton. The novel has been compared with The House of Mirth (1905) and explores...
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  • Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class...
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  • based on the unfinished novel of the same name by American novelist Edith Wharton, published posthumously in 1938. Set in the 1870s during the Gilded...
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    Ethan Frome (category Novels by Edith Wharton)
    Ethan Frome is a 1911 novella by American author Edith Wharton. It details the story of a man who falls in love with his wife's cousin and the tragedies...
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  • The Age of Innocence (1993 film) (category Films based on works by Edith Wharton)
    Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel by Edith Wharton, is by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle...
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  • Roman Fever (category Short stories by Edith Wharton)
    "Roman Fever" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in Liberty magazine on November 10, 1934. A revised and expanded...
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  • The Custom of the Country (category Novels by Edith Wharton)
    Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by the American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts...
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    and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern...
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  • American literary historian and editor known for her biographies of Edith Wharton and Emily Dickinson. She was the Class of 1922 Professor of Humanities...
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    readers have found the late style difficult and unnecessary; his friend Edith Wharton, who admired him greatly, said that some passages in his work were all...
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    novelists of manners include Henry James, Evelyn Waugh, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and John Marquand. To realise upward social mobility in their societies...
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    and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham and Aldous Huxley, as well as wealthy Americans and...
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    of Mary Wilkins Freeman and Edith Wharton" in: Robillard, Douglas, ed. American Supernatural Fiction: From Edith Wharton to the Weird Tales Writers. New...
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  • Thwarte in the 2023 Apple TV+ period drama The Buccaneers, based on Edith Wharton's novel of the same title. Broome had not yet finished drama school when...
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    and charity shops. In Yiddish, such items are known as tchotchkes. Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr., in The Decoration of Houses (1897), distinguished...
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  • Afterward (category Short stories by Edith Wharton)
    "Afterward" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the 1910 edition of The Century Magazine. and later reprinted...
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    Upon its release on April 10, 1925, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, and Edith Wharton praised Fitzgerald's work, and the novel received generally favorable...
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    would write and direct an adaptation of The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton for Apple TV+. In 2022, Coppola guest-starred as herself, alongside...
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  • Secrets of Midland Heights and Nurse. Widdoes starred as author Edith Wharton in Edith Wharton: Looking Back, an episode of the PBS series Great Performances...
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  • Zealand/Australian artist Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American writer Edith Wilson (1872–1961), American first lady and wife of Woodrow Wilson Edith Windsor (1929–2017)...
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  • Ethan Frome (film) (category Films based on works by Edith Wharton)
    screenplay by Richard Nelson, based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Edith Wharton. The film stars Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Joan Allen and Tate...
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  • British aristocracy during the Gilded Age—see: The Buccaneers, a novel by Edith Wharton. Brajer, Jessica (30 May 2022). "Downton Abbey: How the Period Franchise...
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    men as boutonnière when in evening dress. In The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton suggests it was customary for upper-class men from New York City to...
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