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Looking Back, a 1981 TV US loose adaptation of two biographies of Edith Wharton: A Backward Glance, Wharton's own 1934 autobiography & Edith Wharton, a 1975 biography by R.W.B. Lewis (1976 Bancroft Prize-winner). The House of Mirth, a 1981 TV US adaptation, directed by Adrian Hall, starring William Atherton, Geraldine Chaplin and Barbara Blossom
The Age of Innocence is a novel by American author Edith Wharton, published on 25 October 1920.It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review.
The House of Mirth is a novel by American author Edith Wharton, published on 14 October 1905.It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society in the 1890s.
Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. "While Wharton concentrated largely on upper-crust Manhattanites, there is a larger theme in her best work: ...
Edith Wharton said the title of the novel came from a play by English playwrights John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, titled The Custom of the Country, in which the term referred to the droit du seigneur, the claim of a ruler to have sex with a subordinate female before her husband.
Wharton's sometime collaborator, Ogden Codman, Jr., assisted with the architectural design. Wharton's niece, Beatrix Jones Farrand, designed the kitchen garden and the drive; Farrand was the only woman of the eleven founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Edith Wharton and her husband, Edward, lived in the Mount from 1902 to 1911.
The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The story is set in the 1870s, around the time Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937 and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy inviting Nan to a house party, to which Guy Thwaite has
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