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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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  • 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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  • The Glimpses of the Moon The Glimpses of the Moon is a 1922 novel by Edith Wharton. It was made into a silent film of the same name in 1923, but this is...
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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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  • based on the unfinished novel of the same name by American novelist Edith Wharton, published posthumously in 1938. Set in the 1870s, it revolves around...
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    Ethan Frome (category Novels by Edith Wharton)
    Ethan Frome is a 1911 book 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • The Age of Innocence (1993 film) (category Films based on works by Edith Wharton)
    The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, was written by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis...
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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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  • American literary historian and editor known for her biographies of Edith Wharton and Emily Dickinson. She has served as Class of 1922 Professor of Humanities...
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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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    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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    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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    Maria Goeppert Mayer Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose Maria Tallchief Edith Wharton 1998 Madeleine Albright Maya Angelou Nellie Bly Lydia Moss Bradley Mary...
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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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  • 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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  • Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1919) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1921) Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (1922) One of Ours by Willa Cather...
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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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    ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. He wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee, the name of...
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  • upcoming Apple TV+ drama television series The Buccaneers, based on the Edith Wharton novel. Hyland, Véronique (17 November 2014). "Suki Waterhouse's Sister...
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  • eye dialect spelling of "after" "Afterward", a 1910 short story by Edith Wharton Later (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    57th and Fifth, though not in the isolation described by her niece, Edith Wharton, whose picture has been uncritically accepted as history, as Christopher...
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