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Assorted References
- association with Edel
- In Leon Edel
authorship of
- “Age of Innocence, The”
- “Custom of the Country, The”
- “Ethan Frome”
- In Ethan Frome
- “House of Mirth, The”
character of
- Bart
- In Lily Bart
- Frome
- In Ethan Frome
Additional Reading
Biographies include R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton (1975, reprinted 1985); Eleanor Dwight, Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life (1994); Shari Benstock, No Gifts from Chance (1994); Susan Goodman, Edith Wharton’s Inner Circle (1994); and Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton (2007). Analyses of Wharton’s work are found in Barbara A. White, Edith Wharton: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991); Carol J. Singley, Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (1995); and Cynthia Griffin Wolff, A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton, 2nd ed. (1995).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: Official Site of The Mount - Edith Wharton's Home. | Nov 07, 2024 | ||
| Deleted Web site: Official Site of The Mount - Edith Wharton's Home. | Nov 07, 2024 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 07, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Annenberg Learner - Edith Wharton (1862-1937). | Mar 15, 2024 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - Edith Wharton (18621937). | Dec 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Edith Wharton. | Sep 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery - Edith Wharton's World. | Jul 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Women and the American Story - Life Story: Edith Wharton. | May 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of The Mount - Edith Wharton's Home. | Mar 15, 2023 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 09, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Womens Hall of Fame - Edith Wharton. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - Edith Wharton, 75, Is Dead in France. | Jul 23, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Biography of Edith Wharton. | Jul 23, 2016 | ||
| Added mention of Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort. | Feb 02, 2016 | ||
| Added photograph. | May 31, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Literature Network - Biography of Edith Wharton. | Feb 07, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Edith Wharton. | Feb 07, 2013 | ||
| Photo of Wharton (c. 1895) added. | Nov 18, 2009 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Oct 07, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Domestic Goddesses. | Jun 09, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Bibliomania - Edith Wharton. | May 26, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Page by Page Books - The Glimpses of the Moon. | May 11, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Page by Page Books - Summer. | May 11, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. | May 10, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 13, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Nov 10, 1999 |
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