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'.
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.
American author Edith Wharton lived in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt from 1919 until her death in 1937.
Her step-daughter Mary Cadwalader Rawle (1850–1923), who was also her cousin second removed, married the brother of Edith Wharton.
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.
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".
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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.
In 1899 the Merrymount Press commercialized by printing Edith Wharton’s novels for Charles Scribner's Sons.
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.
One of the earliest references to ironic precision can be found in the 1913 novel by Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country.
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 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.
From 1888 to 1910, Brownell worked as an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, where he edited such well-known authors as Edith Wharton.
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.
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: From Dunkerque to Belfort, a collection of magazine articles by Edith Wharton
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.
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.
A previous children's television series produced by ITC Entertainment in 1956 has no relation to the Edith Wharton novel.
The House of Mirth was written while Edith Wharton lived at The Mount, her home in Lenox, Massachusetts.