Edith Wharton and Brooke Astor grew up more than a generation apart, and although they never met, their lives seem to touch. Both were grandes dames who hobnobbed with presidents (Wharton with Teddy ...
Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author famous for novels set in the late 19th century, also wrote an influential book on interior design, long considered a sort of bible of American decorating ...
LENOX — Most of us have read at least one Edith Wharton's novel, right? For those of you who answered in the affirmative, how many of you immediately answered either the "House of Mirth," "Ethan Frome ...
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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Edith Wharton's passionate nature was one that George Eliot might have acknowledged as demanding "an epic life". With 48 titles to her ...
In 1911, Edith Wharton found herself stuck at the Belmont Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Her life was stagnant. She was at the beginning of her divorce from Teddy Wharton. They were at the Belmont, ...
Edith Wharton knows houses. Her first published book was “The Decoration of Houses,” written with Ogden Codman, Jr., which argued for “house-decoration as a branch of architecture,” and against “the ...