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Edith Wharton

American writer and designer of the Gilded Age.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer born on January 24, 1862, who drew on her knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray the Gilded Age.[1] The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to Wharton in 1921 for The Age of Innocence, making her the first female recipient of that honor.[1]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Edith Newbold Jones
Born
24 January 1862
Birthplace
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died
11 August 1937
Place of death
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France
Resting place
Cimetière des Gonards
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • designer

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

She was educated by tutors and governesses while traveling in Europe, becoming fluent in French, German, and Italian.[2][3] Her first published work, a translation of a German poem, appeared when she was 15, but her family did not want her name in print.[4][5] She married Edward Robbins Wharton, a sportsman from a well-established Boston family, on April 29, 1885.[6] Wharton designed The Mount, her estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1902, where she wrote The House of Mirth and other fiction.[7]

Raymond Poincaré, who was then the President of France, named her a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1916 for her wartime contributions.[8]

What the cited sources add

The same source states that Edmund Wilson described Wharton as "the pioneer, but the poet, of interior decoration"[9] A BBC Radio 3 drama description reports that the complete manuscript of Wharton's 1901 play The Shadow of a Doubt was discovered in 2017 by academics Laura Rattray and Mary Chinery.[10] The Smithsonian Magazine article adds that the play's plot concerns assisted suicide, a subject Wharton returned to in her 1907 novel The Fruit of the Tree.[11] The Yale University Library online exhibition confirms that Wharton received an honorary degree from Yale in 1923.[12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Edith Wharton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "National Women's Hall of Fame, Edith Wharton", womenofthehall.org (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Edith Wharton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lee 2008, p. 16; Lee 2008, p. 16; "Chronology", The Mount: Edith Wharton's Home (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Edith Wharton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lee 2008, p. 16; "Chronology", The Mount: Edith Wharton's Home (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Edith Wharton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lee 2008, p. 16; Lee 2008, p. 16; Lee 2008, p. 16; Lee 2008, p. 16; Lee 2008, p. 16 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Edith Wharton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Benstock 1994, p. 216 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Edith Wharton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866–1937; Lee 2008, p. 16; U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704–1930 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Edith Wharton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lee 2008, p. 16; Benstock 1994, p. 216 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Edith Wharton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lee 2008, p. 16; Wolff 1995, p. 253; Lee 2008, p. 16 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "National Women's Hall of Fame, Edith Wharton", womenofthehall.org. facts only, no text reused. womenofthehall.org
  10. Drama on 3 The Shadow of a Doubt. BBC Radio 3. facts only, no text reused. bbc.co.uk
  11. "A Lost Edith Wharton Play Is Performed for the First Time", Smithsonian Magazine, August 28, 2023. facts only, no text reused. smithsonianmag.com
  12. "An Honorary Degree from Yale", Yale University Library Online Exhibitions. facts only, no text reused. onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Edith Wharton (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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