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The Changeling.(life of Edith Wharton)(Biography)
The life of Edith Wharton is not an inspiriting rags-to-riches saga, nor is it a cautionary tale of riches to rags--riches to riches, rather. Born Edith Newbold Jones, in January of 1862, into one of the leading families of New York--the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" is said to have originated with reference to her great-aunts Mary and Rebecca Jones, who shocked the rest of their staid society by building a mansion north of Fifty-seventh Street, unthinkably uptown in the nineteenth century--the author maintained multiple establishments and travelled in the highest style, with a host of servants, augmenting her several inheritances by writing best-selling fiction. ...
- My "dull-witted enemy": symbolic violence and abject maleness in Edith...
- Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction Hummel, William E. September 22, 1996 700+ words
...novel that, despite the querulous reviews it received, Edith Wharton ranked as one of her five favorites.(1) Unable to offer...perhaps her veiled, taboo desire for her own father, George Frederic Jones. The surfacing of the "Beatrice Palmato" fragment in...
- Works of Edith Wharton: Subject Bibliography And Guide To Research Papers
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wharton, Edith January 1, 1963 700+ words
...literature? Auchincloss, Louis, Edith Wharton (University of Minnesota pamphlets...1961). ______, ed., The Edith Wharton Reader (1965). Beach, Joseph Warren...Technique (1932). Bell, Millicent, Edith Wharton and Henry James: The Story of Their...
- Works of Edith Wharton: Critical Commentary
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wharton, Edith January 1, 1963 700+ words
...critics agree that Ethan Frome is among Edith Wharton's finest and most important works...comparatively brief treatment, entitled Edith Wharton: A Critical Study. In 1925, Robert...of the important detailed studies, Edith Wharton. This monograph (a small book) is...
- Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit.
- Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction Batcos, Stephanie September 22, 1996 700+ words
...49.95. Few people would argue that Edith Wharton was a cultured woman. Throughout her...guests. But what did culture mean to Edith Wharton? Two recent books, Dale Bauer's Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics and Carol Singley...
- Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics.
- Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction Batcos, Stephanie September 22, 1996 700+ words
...17.50. Few people would argue that Edith Wharton was a cultured woman. Throughout her...guests. But what did culture mean to Edith Wharton? Two recent books, Dale Bauer's Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics and Carol Singley...
- Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Style Schriber, Mary Suzanne March 22, 1998 700+ words
...heretofore dispersed critical writings of Edith Wharton. As editor Frederick Wegener observes...s A Feast of Words:The Triumph of Edith Wharton in 1977 to Susan Goodman's Edith Wharton's Inner Circle in 1994; from Alan Price...
- Edith Wharton's greenhouse A GLITTERING REPRISE.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Victoria Martin, Tovah April 1, 2001 700+ words
...coauthor of The Decoration of Houses, Edith Wharton's greenhouse had wonderful bones...look at this loving restoration. WHEN EDITH WHARTON ADDED A GREEN-house to her Berkshire...greenhouse" would agree--it was pure Edith Wharton. As to what actually went on within...
- Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts/The Architectural Imagination of Edith...
- Magazine article from: Legacy D'Amore, Maura April 1, 2009 700+ words
Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts. By Emily J...The Architectural Imagination of Edith Wharton: Gender, Class, and Power in the...surrounding the fate of the Mount, Edith Wharton's selfdesigned home in the Berkshires...
