NEW YORK (AP) — When World War I broke out in 1914, Edith Wharton’s initial response was less as a storyteller in search of material than as a citizen and intrepid witness.

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The Real Buccaneers: American Dollar Princesses of the Gilded Age & Edith Wharton ...

A trove of 136 Edith Wharton letters—some written when Wharton was just fourteen years old—sold at Christie’s yesterday to an American educational institution for $182,500. It’s a tremendous treat for ...

In February of 1901, Walter Berry, a lawyer and member of élite society in New York, expressed a regret in a letter written to his close friend Edith Wharton. “How I do wish I could run on to see the ...

My favorite high school teacher introduced The Age of Innocence by saying, “Maybe not for everyone. Probably not for any of you.” That sums up how most people feel. Even though Edith Wharton—who ...

The trouble with Summer...is that Mrs. Wharton rather forces her note. It is not that seduction as a scheme for literary bouleversement is a little out of date. There is no such thing as a catastrophe ...

Had James W. Tuttleton attempted to verify his allegations about me in his zealous defense of R.W.B. Lewis (March 1989), he would have discovered the inaccuracy of his assumptions about my work on ...

Edith Wharton is not a writer most of us probably associate with war. With the frosty, treacherous, yet bloodless drawing-room battles of Gilded Age New York, yes. With the stink and smoking gore of a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. Wharton was an unlikely writer: her upbringing was in the ...

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Try this short quiz on the last stop for five popular writers. By J. D. Biersdorfer Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer ...