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Edith Wharton (/ ˈ hw ɔːr t ən /; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age .
Edith Wharton era una gran admiradora de la cultura y arquitectura europea, lo que le hizo cruzar el Atlántico un total de 66 veces antes de morir. 14 . En 1907 se estableció definitivamente en Francia, donde fue discípula y amiga de Henry James. Primero se instaló en París y a partir de 1919 en sus dos casas de campo, Pavilion Colombe en ...
- Edith Newbold Jones
Hace 5 días · In a 1955 interview, several decades after the deaths of both Theodore and Bamie, none other than Eleanor Roosevelt agreed with that assessment: ... “I do delight in him,” Edith Wharton, ...
Edith Wharton. I n her long career, which stretched over forty years and included the publication of more than forty books, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) portrayed a fascinating segment of the American experience. She was a born storyteller, whose novels are justly celebrated for their vivid settings, satiric wit, ironic style, and moral seriousness.
Later in her life, Eleanor often attended services at Calvary. The church was also regularly visited by other luminaries such as famed author Edith Wharton, who depicted the inner workings of New York’s high society in her timeless novels.
By the 1890s, after the publication of a well-received collection of short stories, Wharton began to perceive authorship as her life’s avocation. When her novel The House of Mirth became a bestseller in 1905, she found herself ranked among the most important American writers of the day.
Subjects: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 ; American literature ; Books and reading ; War relief ; Tuberculosis. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a writer and the first woman to earn a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; she was also a friend of Theodore and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
