21. Life Overview Life overview. edith wharton was born edith Newbold Jones to George and Lucretia Jones in New York City on January 24, 1862. edith had two older brothers named Frederic and Harry who were 12 and 16 http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/6741/lifeoverview.html

Life overview Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to George and Lucretia Jones in New York City on January 24, 1862. Edith had two older brothers named Frederic and Harry who were 12 and 16 years old when she came into this world. Edith belonged to an aristocratic New York family with ancestry dating back 300 years. Her role as a daughter of society was to learn the mannerisms and rituals expected of well bred young women in those days. Later she would rebel against this role but as a child she was schooled at home and had the privilege of use of her father's extensive library. She began, therefore, at an early age to read extensively and make up stories which were acted out for her nanny. Later she would publish her first non-fiction book along with Ogden Codman, The Decoration of Houses. Edith married Teddy Wharton, 12 years older than she. They lived a life of relative ease with homes in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Still Edith's marriage was not a fulfilled one. When she discovered Teddy had taken money from her to set up a mistress in Boston, the disintegration of their marriage began. Meanwhile Edith 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. All of these circumstances led to her interest through writing in the thoughts behind the actions of her characters. And characters she created aplenty. Novels flowed from her mind in the years between 1900 and 1938.(See List of Works) Indeed her novels became so popular with the general public that Ms. Wharton was able to live comfortably on her earnings the rest of her life.

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23. PAL: Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Selected bibliography of works and articles. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/wharton.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Edith Wharton Link The Edith Wharton Society Selected Primary Works Books ... Home Page Source: The Wharton Society Home Page Wharton is today recognized as a major writer of the first two decades of the twentieth century. She has written extensively on New York families with old money in struggle with social climbers. Her fiction belongs to the novel of manners tradition. Her prose is elegant and her plots are tightly constructed. A prolific writer, she received a Pulitzer Prize in 1921 and, two years later, she became the first woman to receive a Doctor of Letters degree from Yale University. Top Selected Primary Works The Greater Inclination (a collection of stories), 1899; The Valley of Decision (novel), 1902; The House of Mirth Madame de Treymes Ethan Frome The Reef ( novel), 1912; The Custom of the Country Summer The Age of Innocence Old New York The Mother's Recompense A Backward Glance (memoir), 1934;

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Chez les heureux du monde est un film de Terence Davies. Un film de Terence Davies avec Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd. D'apres le roman de Edith Wharton - The house of mirth. Film distribuŽ par Diaphana Distribution. Adaptation au cinema du roman d'Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth. Distributeur : Diaphana A bientot dans les salles de cinema...

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John Alford Dr. Amp Susan B. Anthony Colonel John Ashley ... Edith Wharton John Alford : The man for whom the town of Alford is named. Dr Amp (b.1935 - ) Direct descendent of Shakespearean actress and novelist Fanny Kemble . After years of government research on the glowworm, Amp tuned in, turned on and dropped out following a series of mishaps. Amp has since dedicated his life to the pursuit of poetry and happiness. Susan B. Anthony (b.1825 - ) Born in Adams, MA, Susan B. Anthony spearheaded the women's right to vote movement. Her likeness adorned the silver dollar. Colonel John Ashley Mum Bett ; first legally freed slave. Buried at Sedgwick Pie. Josh Billings ; American humorist; see : Love Israel Bissell a post rider with Paul Revere, delivered the news of fighting in Lexington and Concord at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, to Philadelphia and the Continental Congress in 1775 after Revere was stopped by the British. He is buried in the Hinsdale Cemetery William Cullen Bryant An Indian At The Burial Place Of His Fathers Thanatopsis To A Waterfowl Blessed Are They That Mourn Joseph Hodges Choate Silvio O. Conte

28. Edith Wharton - Biography And Works edith wharton. Extensive Biography of edith wharton and a searchablecollection of works. edith wharton. Search all of edith wharton http://www.online-literature.com/wharton/

Home Author Index Shakespeare The Bible ... Edith Wharton Fiction Ethan Frome Summer The Age of Innocence The Bunner Sisters ... The Reef Edith Wharton Search all of Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (1862-1937) , American author best known for her stories and ironic novels about upper class people. 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. She was educated privately by European governesses. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, a Boston banker, who was twelve years her senior. Wharton's role as a wife with social responsibilities and her writing ambitions resulted in nervous collapse. She had started to compose poems in her teens and she was advised that writing might help her recover. Her first book, The Decoration Of Houses , appeared in 1897. Her husband started to show increasing signs of mental instability. In 1906-09 Wharton had an affair with the American journalist Morton Fullerton, the great love of her life. The Whartons were divorced in 1913 and Edith spent the rest of her life in France. In the 1890s Wharton started to contribute to Scribner's Magazine . Her first collection of short stories appeared in the late 1890s. Wharton gained her first literary success with her book The House Of Mirth (1905), a story of a beautiful but poor woman, Lily Bart, trying to survive in the pitiless New York City.

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Owl-Eyes Home Term Paper Helper Suggest a Link Report a Broken Link ... Advertising Info Owl-Eyes Biography and Etexts Edith Wharton Click HERE for essays on Edith Wharton's novels and stories from The Paper Store. Edith Wharton was born in New York City. In 1885, she married Edward Wharton and lived a life of comparable ease with houses in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Wharton's major works include The House of Mirth Ethan Frome (1907), and The Age of Innocence She divorced in 1913 after Edward began supporting a mistress. However, she was able to live comfortably all her life because of her novels' contemporary popularity. In 1921, Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize(for Age of Innocence ). Her works highlight the world of Victorian era society, and its many contradictions. Primary Source: Microsoft Encarta another biography The Works of Edith Wharton The House of Mirth(1905) full text Ethan Frome(1907) full text The Age of Innocence(1920) full text If you can't find the information you need, then click here for more resources.

30. Edith Wharton, Author Of "Ethan Frome" And "The Age Of Innocence" Biography and bibliography of the writer with links to other resources. http://www.kruse.co.uk/wharton.htm

Edith Wharton welcome to Big Bill's Edith Wharton Stuff! She wrote "Ethan Frome" and "The Age of Innocence" don't you know! Buy Edith Wharton Books Through My Amazon Links! The Age of Innocence opens nationwide on 18th February (this was written in 1994 - BB) TRIUMPHANT Whatever you think of these "costume dramas" Commitments director Alan Parker recently described them as "the cinematic equivalent of Laura Ashley " there’s no denying their makers’ impeccable literary taste. Forster and Waugh have never been out of fashion, but the triumphant transfer to the screen of novels like Howards End and Brideshead Revisited has only boosted their already considerable readerships. The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth Ethan Frome, and a dozen or so of her stories, as well as the two books mentioned above ranks with the very best American fiction, and I suspect that reluctant admirers of Henry James - those who love Daisy Miller and The Portrait of the Lady , but find his later writings a little too tortuous for comfort - will be pleasantly surprised by her.

31. Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. wharton, edith Newbold Jones. Finally, in 1913, after she had settled permanentlyin France, edith wharton terminated the marriage by divorce. 1. http://www.bartleby.com/65/wh/WhartonE.html

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32. The Edith Wharton Society Home Page Offers scholars and other interested persons an opportunity to share in the study and appreciation of the life and works of edith wharton through annual meetings, sessions, special conferences, and its journal, The edith wharton Review. http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/wharton/index.html

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34. Reader's Companion To American History - -WHARTON, EDITH wharton, edith. (18621937), author and philanthropist. This edith wharton knewand never forgot, and by that token we know her for the artist she was. . http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_091800_whartonedith.htm

Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History WHARTON, EDITH , author and philanthropist. Wharton was born into the wealthy "old New York" society of the late nineteenth century, and the atmosphere of her world permeates most of her work. She married a wealthy Bostonian and ostensibly settled into the life of the comfortable. But the marriage was not successful and the Whartons divorced in 1913. Partly to release the energies confined by the rigid social strictures and anti-intellectualism of her aristocratic world, and later to relieve the unhappiness of her marriage, Wharton turned to writing. She privately printed her first book of poems in 1878, when she was sixteen. Wharton wrote two collections of short stories, The Greater Inclination (1899) and Crucial Instances (1901), and a book on interior decoration, The Decoration of Houses (1897), before publishing her first novel, The Valley of Decision, in 1902. By this time, Wharton had also formed a close personal and literary friendship with Henry James, and their work continues to be compared for similarities in both style and theme. All her works were favorably reviewed, but Wharton did not receive critical acclaim until

35. Roman Fever By Edith Wharton Full text of the short story in HTML format. http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/whartonromanfever.html

Short Story Classics Edith Wharton Roman Fever by Edith Wharton I From the table at which they had been lunching two American ladies of ripe but well-cared-for middle age moved across the lofty terrace of the Roman restaurant and, leaning on its parapet, looked first at each other, and then down on the outspread glories of the Palatine and the Forum, with the same expression of vague but benevolent approval. The two ladies looked at each other again, this time with a tinge of smiling embarrassment, and the smaller and paler one shook her head and colored slightly. "Barbara!" she murmured, sending an unheard rebuke after the mocking voice in the stairway. The other lady, who was fuller, and higher in color, with a small determined nose supported by vigorous black eyebrows, gave a good-humored laugh. "That's what our daughters think of us." The dark lady laughed again, and they both relapsed upon the view, contemplating it in silence, with a sort of diffused serenity which might have been borrowed from the spring effulgence of the Roman skies. The luncheon hour was long past, and the two had their end of the vast terrace to themselves. At its opposite extremity a few groups, detained by a lingering look at the outspread city, were gathering up guidebooks and fumbling for tips. The last of them scattered, and the two ladies were alone on the air-washed height. "Well, I don't see why we shouldn't just stay here," said Mrs. Slade, the lady of the high color and energetic brows. Two derelict basket chairs stood near, and she pushed them into the angle of the parapet, and settled herself in one, her gaze upon the Palatine. "After all, it's still the most beautiful view in the world."

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Edith Wharton E scritora estadounidense galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer. En sus novelas describe las numerosas contradicciones de una sociedad atrapada en el desapasionamiento de la época victoriana. Edith Newbold Jones nació en Nueva York el 24 de enero de 1862, y recibió una educación privada. En 1885, se casó con el banquero Edward Wharton, de quien se divorció en 1913. Durante la década de 1890 escribió relatos para Scribner's Magazine, y en 1902 publicó una novela histórica titulada El valle de la decisión . Su fama literaria se consolidó finalmente con La casa de la dicha (1905), una obra que, como muchas de sus novelas posteriores, está poblada de personajes pertenecientes al cerrado y artificioso mundo social en el que ella misma había nacido. En 1907, se estableció definitivamente en Francia. Su novela corta Ethan Frome , una trágica historia de amor entre personas corrientes ambientada en Nueva Inglaterra, se publicó en 1911. En opinión de muchos críticos, este libro alcanza, por su sencillez, una universalidad que no tienen sus novelas de sociedad. Posteriormente Wharton produjo un gran número de novelas, libros de viajes, relatos (entre los que destacan algunos cuentos de fantasmas memorables) y poemas. Otras novelas dignas de mención son: Las costumbres del país La edad de la inocencia (1920; Premio Pulitzer en 1921), y cuatro novelas cortas agrupadas en

38. The Touchstone, By Edith Wharton. Read It Now For Free! (Homepage) EText of the novel by edith wharton. http://www.PageByPageBooks.com/Edith_Wharton/The_Touchstone/

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39. From Revolution To Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline Of American Literature: The FRtR Outlines American Literature The Rise of Realism 18601914 edith wharton(1862-1937). The Rise of Realism 1860-1914 edith wharton (1862-1937). http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/wharton.htm

FRtR Outlines American Literature The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: Edith Wharton (1862-1937) An Outline of American Literature by Kathryn VanSpanckeren The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Index Like James , Edith Wharton grew up partly in Europe and eventually made her home there. She was descended from a wealthy, established family in New York society and saw firsthand the decline of this cultivated group and, in her view, the rise of boorish, nouveau-riche business families. This social transformation is the background of many of her novels. Like James, Wharton contrasts Americans and Europeans. The core of her concern is the gulf separating social reality and the inner self. Often a sensitive character feels trapped by unfeeling characters or social forces. Edith Wharton had personally experienced such entrapment as a young writer suffering a long nervous breakdown partly due to the conflict in roles between writer and wife. Wharton's best novels include The House of Mirth The Custom of the Country Summer The Age of Innocence (1920), and the beautifully crafted novella

40. Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome Literature Annotations. wharton, edith Ethan Frome. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/wharton1457-d

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome On-Line Text Genre Novella (133 pp.) Keywords Caregivers Catastrophe Depression Disability ... Trauma Summary Sometimes overlooked by those attracted to Wharton's longer, more ironic novels, this novella is one of stark simplicity set against a bleak New England countryside at the beginning of the 20th century. With characteristic economy, Wharton tells a compelling story about the human need for passion and affection in a situation where only abject coldness exists. Ethan Frome is introduced by the narrator in this way: "It was there that, several years ago, I saw him for the first time; and the sight pulled me up sharp. Even then he was the most striking figure in Starksfield, though he was but the ruin of a man" (3). Determined to learn more about Ethan, while temporarily located in an appropriately-named village, the narrator manages to gather pieces of information about the figure who seemed an "incarnation of frozen woe in the melancholy landscape" (11). The spark of hope that might have led young Ethan toward education and escape expired when care for his chronically-ill mother fell first to him and then to a cousin named Zenobia. Unable to abandon his mother and their needy homestead, he was easily attracted to Zenobia, the kindly young woman who assisted in his mother's care. They married, the mother died, and Zenobia inexplicably assumed a sick-role that would make Ethan's life loveless and tragic. Permanently stuck in Starksfield, his years become emotionally and economically depressed. Barely able to eke out a living hauling lumber and subjected to his bed-ridden wife's petty and constant demands, Ethan's impoverishment seems unending.

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