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Edith Wharton

Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known work…

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culture · American writer and designer (1862–1937) · writer · novelist · poet · translator · prose writer · art historian · also Edith Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, Edith Jones, Edith Newbold Jones, Wharton, Edith, 1862–1937, Wharton

Born 24 January 1862 · Died 11 August 1937 · Q276032

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read everything else but novels until the day of my marriage.
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Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1996).
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2026· 4 entries

Aug 20, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“read everything else but novels until the day of my marriage.”

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Jun 5, 2026Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: Unseen Edith Wharton short story is published more than a century later

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Apr 24, 2026Documented record76% confidence

The New York Times: Edith Wharton

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2026Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

After having been discovered among her papers in Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University

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2023· 2 entries

Nov 11, 2023Documented record69% confidence

Yahoo: A Guide to All of Edith Wharton's Novels and Novellas

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2023Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Directed by Peter Hinton-Davis produced by the Shaw Festival

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2022· 1 entry

Dec 27, 2022Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: Festive re-reads: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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2020· 2 entries

Sep 1, 2020Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: Reading group: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is our book for September

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Jan 11, 2020Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: The House of Mirth: Jennifer Egan on Edith Wharton’s masterpiece

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2018· 2 entries

Jan 11, 2018Documented record69% confidence

Wall Street Journal: Edith Wharton’s Decorating Advice: Why It Holds Up 100 Years Later

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2018Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

With Ulrik Birkkjaer as Ethan, Sarah Van Patten as Zeena and Mathilde Froustey as Mattie

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2017· 1 entry

Jun 1, 2017Documented record75% confidence

The Guardian: Unseen Edith Wharton play found hidden in Texas archive

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2010· 1 entry

Sep 5, 2010Documented record69% confidence

New Republic: Edith Wharton’s War

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2005· 1 entry

Dec 15, 2005Documented record69% confidence

The Independent: Edith Wharton's books finally arrive in Massachusetts after 100 years

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1996· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1996Documented record84% confidence

Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1996).

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1993· 2 entries

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Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder and Michelle Pfeiffer

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1993Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Starring Liam Neeson and Patricia Arquette

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1937· 3 entries

Aug 11, 1937Documented record86% confidence

Died 1937-08-11.

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Aug 11, 1937Documented record66% confidence

At Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt

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Jun 1, 1937Documented record70% confidence

Wharton was at her French country home (shared with architect and interior decorator Ogden Codman), where she was at work on a revised edition of The Decoration of Houses, when she suffered a heart attack and collapsed

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1934· 1 entry

1934Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Wharton's autobiography, A Backward Glance, was published

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1921· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1921Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for The Age of Innocence (1921).

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1921Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence

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1917· 1 entry

1917Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The war novella, The Marne, in 1918, and A Son at the Front, in 1919 (published 1923)

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1916· 1 entry

Apr 18, 1916Documented record66% confidence

Raymond Poincaré, then-President of France, appointed her Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, the fifth class of the country's highest honour, in recognition of her dedication to the war effort

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1915· 1 entry

1915Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Wharton edited a charity benefit volume, The Book of the Homeless, which included essays, art, poetry, and musical scores by many major contemporary European and American artists, including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Wi

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1908· 1 entry

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Teddy Wharton's mental condition was determined to be incurable

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1906· 1 entry

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By Edith Wharton and Clyde Fitch

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1902· 1 entry

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Wharton designed The Mount, her estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, which survives, today, as an example of her design principles

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1901· 1 entry

1901Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Wharton wrote a two-act play called Man of Genius

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1897· 2 entries

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The Whartons purchased their New York home, 884 Park Avenue

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1897Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Edith Wharton purchased Land's End in Newport, Rhode Island, from Robert Livingston Beeckman, a former U

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1893· 1 entry

1893Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Bought a house named Land's End, on the other side of Newport, for $80,000, and moved into it

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1889· 1 entry

1889Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Sent out three poems for publication, to Scribner's, Harper's and Century

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1888· 1 entry

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The Whartons and their friend, James Van Alen, took a cruise through the Aegean islands

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1885· 1 entry

Apr 29, 1885Documented record70% confidence

At the age of 23, Wharton married Edward Robbins (Teddy) Wharton, who was 12 years her senior, at the Trinity Chapel Complex in Manhattan

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1883· 1 entry

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And she lived there until her death in 1901

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1880· 1 entry

1880Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Had five poems published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly, an important literary magazine

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1878· 1 entry

1878Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Her father arranged for a collection of two dozen original poems and five translations, Verses, to be privately published

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1877· 1 entry

1877Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

At the age of 15, she secretly wrote a novella, Fast and Loose

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1873· 2 entries

1873Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Wharton wrote a short story and gave it to her mother to read

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Jan 1, 1873Documented record76% confidence

“s critique, Wharton decided to write only poetry. While she constantly sought her mother”

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1872· 1 entry

1872Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Spent their winters in New York City and their summers in Newport, Rhode Island

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1862· 2 entries

Jan 24, 1862Documented record66% confidence

To George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, at their brownstone at 14 West 23rd Street in Manhattan, New York City

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Jan 24, 1862Documented record86% confidence

Born 1862-01-24.

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