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 House of Mirth
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The House of Mirth is a tragedy about Lily Bart, a well-born but penniless young woman belonging to New York City's high society of the 1890s. Written by American author Edith Wharton, it came out Oct
Edith Wharton
…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 notable ghost stories. Edith Newbold Jones was born on January 24, 1862, to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia…
First edition, 1905
In The House of Mirth (1905), Lily Bart attracts the attentions of a married man.
Poster for the serialized debut of The House of Mirth in Scribner's Magazine (1905)
The tragic heroine of The House of Mirth (1905), Lily Bart, lingers at the broad staircase, observing the high-society people gathered in the hall below.