Edith Wharton
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Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
Wharton, c. 1895
Portrait of Wharton as a child by Edward Harrison May (1870)
Edith Wharton by Edward Harrison May (1881)
The Mount, 2006
The Age of Innocence
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The Age of Innocence is a novel by American author Edith Wharton, published on 25 October 1920. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial R
Edith Wharton
…portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several…
1920 first edition dust jacket
The Age of Innocence, a character study by the Englishman Joshua Reynolds completed in either 1785 or 1788, is believed to have been the inspiration for the title of Wharton's novel.
Katharine Cornell in the Broadway production of The Age of Innocence (1928)