Edith Wharton’s Passion for Order
It was Helen Pinkerton who introduced me to Edith Wharton, and in honour of Wharton’s birthday today I’d like to …
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Writing with “dogged obstinacy”
In the summer of 1911, Edith Wharton was “digging away” at her “Big Novel,” The Custom of the Country, wondering …
Keeping Up with Edith Jones in the Library
Among the books George Frederic Jones borrowed from the New York Society Library when his daughter Edith was young were …
“A perpetual piecing together of broken bits”
One of my favourite novels by Edith Wharton is The Reef, which she wrote while she was working on the …
“Virtue is its Humphry Ward”
In the years after the Great War, Edith Wharton wondered about her future reputation. In my last post, I wrote …
Happy Birthday to Edith Wharton!
Today is Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday, and I’m thinking about ways to celebrate, in addition to rereading her work. There’s a short …
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