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6 unusual facts about Edith Wharton


Gustave Schlumberger

He was a friend of Edith Wharton, who described him as looking like 'a descendent of one of the Gauls on the arch of Titus'.

Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria

She frequently hosted meetings of the celebrated aristocratic, political and literary figures known as "The Souls" at the Desborough residence, with visitors including Henry Irving, Vita Sackville-West, Edward VII, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde.

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt

American author Edith Wharton lived in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt from 1919 until her death in 1937.

Thomas McCall Cadwalader

Her step-daughter Mary Cadwalader Rawle (1850–1923), who was also her cousin second removed, married the brother of Edith Wharton.

Villa Cetinale

Villa Cetinale was one of the 70 gardens included by Edith Wharton in her 1904 book Italian Villas and Their Gardens, with illustrations and a plan of it.

Volubilis

The American writer Edith Wharton visited in 1920 and highlighted what she saw as the contrast between "two dominations looking at each other across the valley", the ruins of Volubilis and "the conical white town of Moulay Idriss, the Sacred City of Morocco".


Anthropology of an American Girl

Like Jane Austen, George Eliot or Edith Wharton, H.T. Hamann critiques her era and culture through the tale of a precocious young woman buffeted by the accidents, values and consequences of her age.

Daniel Berkeley Updike

In 1899 the Merrymount Press commercialized by printing Edith Wharton’s novels for Charles Scribner's Sons.

George Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester

One of Consuelo Iznaga's closest friends, Edith Wharton, was said to have incorporated certain aspects of her friend's marriage in her unfinished novel, The Buccaneers.

Ironic precision

One of the earliest references to ironic precision can be found in the 1913 novel by Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country.

Omni Parker House

Edith Wharton includes a private meeting between characters Mr. Newland Archer and Countess Ellen Olenska at the Parker House in her iconic work of the early 20th century, The Age of Innocence.

The Shaughraun

The original production and cast is praised by the main protagonist in Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence which is set in 1870s New York.

W. C. Brownell

From 1888 to 1910, Brownell worked as an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, where he edited such well-known authors as Edith Wharton.

William Morton Fullerton

It was Fullerton's extensive knowledge of the world of publishing that led him to assist author Edith Wharton (with whom, at the time, he was involved) in publishing the French translation of her classic novel The House of Mirth, through a well-known magazine.


see also

Eduardo Berti

His translations from English into Spanish include “With Borges” (by Alberto Manguel), “The Sandglass” (Romesh Gunesekera), “American Notebooks, a selection” (Nathaniel Hawthorne), “Lady Susan” (Jane Austen), and also a couple of anthologies as “New York short stories” (Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, Dorothy Parker, etc.).

Fighting France

Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort, a collection of magazine articles by Edith Wharton

Keeping up with the Joneses

The phrase is also associated with another of Edith Wharton's aunts, Mary Mason Jones, who built a large mansion at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, then undeveloped.

Rhinecliff, New York

The town is also the setting of the fictional book series The It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar and Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton.

The Buccaneers

A previous children's television series produced by ITC Entertainment in 1956 has no relation to the Edith Wharton novel.

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth was written while Edith Wharton lived at The Mount, her home in Lenox, Massachusetts.