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Deema Al-hihi / Edith Warton’s Achievements

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Deema Al-hihi / Edith Warton’s Achievements

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Edith Wharton was born into and lived in a society that strictly discouraged women from achieving much besides a marriage and life as a proper house wife. Wharton defied her
society’s standards by writing over 40 books, and being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Wharton was the first woman to be honored with the award.

https://www.edithwharton.org/discover/edith-wharton/

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In her career over 40 years, Edith Wharton published more than 40 books that oftentimes explored the social ambitions of the newly rich. She was well-suited to write about this topic because she was discontent with her own societal position as merely a matron and hostess and was born into the facet of fashionable New York society that was built on inherited wealth, which gave her the perfect position from which to view newcomers as they entered the world of wealth. Wharton is able to bring the social and material world that she grew up in and provides the setting for her fiction to life through vivid descriptions, satiric wit, ironic style, and moral seriousness.

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/whar3.htm

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Edith Wharton was born January 24, 1862, in New York City, New York and died August 11, 1937, in Saint-Brice-sous-Foret, France. She resided in Europe for six years after the American Civil War and married a wealthy Boston banker in 1885. Wharton is best known for her novels about the upper-class society into which she was born. Her "The Age of Innocence" written in 1920 earned her a Pulitzer Prize.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edith-Wharton

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Edith Wharton and the new age of innocence  

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Edith Wharton and the new age of innocence  

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Edith Wharton was a prolific author whose works were characterized with keen intelligence, a lively sensibility, an eye for close detail, a witty and graceful prose style, strong opinions about society and about how to live, and a certain constriction traceable to the upbringing and class about which she wrote with alternating and sometimes simultaneous savagery and compassion.

Edith Wharton’s passions were (in no particular order) literature, gardens, architecture, travel, Italy, France, friendship, and Morton Fullerton, a journalist with whom, in middle age, she had an intense and ultimately unhappy love affair. Notably absent from this list is her husband, Teddy, whom she married when she was twenty-three (a late marriage for a girl of her time) and whom she divorced after his increasing mental instability turned out to involve a weakness for the ladies and a calamitous recklessness with Edith’s money. Everyone has a theory on why the marriage went so wrong and about what was troubling Teddy, exactly—was he a closeted homosexual or possibly bipolar?—and about whether the union was consummated at all. During the twelve years between her wedding and the publication of her first book, Edith was almost constantly ill, suffering from asthma, fatigue, flu, headaches, various nervous ailments, and long bouts of nausea. It is interesting, if not surprising, to track, in her novels, how often a character’s thoughts of marriage lead directly to associations of obligation, security, and boredom.

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/03/21/making-up-edith-wharton/

Tfw you can’t tell whether your husband is a closet homosexual or just bipolar

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Edith Wharton critiqued the American Culture and the social classes. She saw women’s position in society never being able to change and not being able to escape the male dominance. Her novels are about the tensions of the world view and her own private.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/theater/l-edith-wharton-a-realist-not-a-romantic-852593.html

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Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1921, and a pioneer in regards to women authors. Wharton was also highly self-critical, possibly as a result of her experiences with her mother during her childhood. Despite facing a lack of success early in her career, Wharton continued writing and several of her later works became successful.

Wharton’s stories are characterized b.y a subtle use of dramatic irony. Many of her works are set in or around her home state of New York, specifically the Hudson Valley.

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Edith Wharton
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Wharton was born into a New York family and married the wealthy banker, Edward Wharton. She started writing after her marriage and based her stories on the New York society. She often includes irony and polished prose about the New York society and her protagonists are often tragic heroes. She received a Pulitzer Prize for the novel, The Age of Innocence; however, she is most well known for her Ethan Frome novel.
Here is a quote by Edith Wharton "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it."

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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16.Edith_Wharton

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Edith Wharton was an American author who is known for her ironic and polished prose about the New York aristocratic high society that she was born into. Her protagonists are intelligent tragic heroes that challenge social taboos but are unable to overcome the barriers of social conventions. The Age of Innocence- a book about New York in the 1870s- led Wharton To become the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/e/ethan-frome/edith-wharton-biography

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Edith Wharton- An interesting fact on the topic of Edith Wharton is that she was born into a community where the most a woman can accomplish is a successful marriage. Throughout her childhood, Edith always had a huge appreciation for languages and arts, especially literature.At age 16, she was open till her fathers library and fell in love with the fictional stories she wrote away from the parties and daily life of a rich kid. She also had many depressing events, such as her father’s death 1882, her failed love and her single status at age 23. She wrote over 40 books in 40 years and became one of the most successful authors in architecture, design, and textures.
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Edith Wharton was a decidedly unique and interesting person. At 15, she wrote a novel titled “Fast and Loose” but kept it a secret; however, it was published in 1938, a year after her death. Wharton was also the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature. In addition, Wharton was awarded an honorary doctorate from Yale in literature and had a full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, quite immeasurable feats during a time when women were greatly deterred from professional success.https://www.edithwharton.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ew-1865-768x737.jpg

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Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome.Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton combined an insider's view of American aristocracy with a powerful prose style. Her novels and short stories realistically portrayed the lives and morals of the late nineteenth century, an era of decline and faded wealth. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921, and was the first woman to receive this honor.

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Born into the aristocracy of New York during the 1860s, Edith Wharton was expected to be the proper lady. Diagnosed with depression and undergoing treatment during the 1890s she was unable to publish any work until the age of 36. When WW1 stared Wharton became involved in the war effort and traveled through Europe in her motorcar opening schools and hostels for refugees. Wharton continued to write throughout her life until her death at the age of 75, where she was buried at the American Cemetery at Versailles.

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Edith Wharton Biography | List of Works, Study Guides & Essays

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Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862 in New York City. Her parents, George and Lucretia Jones, had roots in aristocracy d...

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Edith Wharton was born January 24, 1862 to a wealthy New York family. She privately published her first work, Verses, at age 16.

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Author of The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, and The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton was one of America’s greatest writers in a time when women were discouraged from anything beyond marriage. She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Edith Wharton was born in 1862 in New York City, and died in France, 1937. Her first book was one of her own poems published when she was 16. Her more famous books were published later in life, depicting the upper-class society in which she was born. Her major literary model was Henry James, the both shared the concern for artistic form and ethical issues.

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Wharton was born into a wealthy New York on January 24,1862. Wharton spent a large part of her childhood France, Germany, Italy where she developed an appreciation for art, especially literature. When Anna Catherine Bahlmann, an intelligent woman became her governess her love for literature blossomed and she released her first book of poetry at the age of 16. Wharton married in 1885 at the age of 23 and moved to Lenox in 1991. In the following decade she wrote Ethan Frome and the House of Mirth. First woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature.

https://www.edithwharton.org/discover/edith-wharton/

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Edith was born into an upper class New York family where she was educated by private tutors and governesses at home and in Europe. She made her debut in society in 1879 but it was until after she married that she began to write. Edith first began writing poetry and was influenced by the writer Henry James, a novelist. Wharton’s first novel (1905) garnered critical acclaim and a wide audience but it was until 1920 when she wrote Age of Innocence that she won a Pulitzer Prize.
“The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” -Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton was born in New York City on January 24th, 1862 into an upper class family. She was educated at a young age and began writing poetry at 16 years-old. She went on to write published novels such as The Reef, The Custom of the Country, Summer, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, which she won a Pulitzer Prize for. Later, Wharton wrote Twilight Sleep, Hudson River Bracketed, The Gods Arrive, and A Backward Glance. After 1907, Wharton began living in France, taking rare trips back to the United States. It was in France in 1937 that Wharton passed away at the age of 75.

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Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones, (born January 24, 1862, New York, New York, U.S.-died August 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France), American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born.

Edith Jones came of a distinguished and long-established New York family. She was educated by private tutors and governesses at home and in Europe, where the family resided for six years after the American Civil War, and she read voraciously. She made her debut in society in 1879 and married Edward Wharton, a wealthy Boston banker, in 1885.

Although she had had a book of her own poems privately printed when she was 16, it was not until after several years of married life that Wharton began to write in earnest. Her major literary model was Henry James, whom she knew, and her work reveals James's concern for artistic form and ethical issues. She contributed a few poems and stories to Harper's, Scribner's, and other magazines in the 1890s, and in 1897, after overseeing the remodeling of a house in Newport, Rhode Island, she collaborated with the architect Ogden Codman, Jr., on The Decoration of Houses. Her next books, The Greater Inclination (1899) and Crucial Instances (1901), were collections of stories.

Wharton's first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902. The House of Mirth (1905) was a novel of manners that analyzed the stratified society in which she had been reared and its reaction to social change. The book won her critical acclaim and a wide audience. In the next two decades-before the quality of her work began to decline under the demands of writing for women's magazines-she wrote such novels as The Reef (1912), The Custom of the Country (1913), Summer (1917), and The Age of Innocence (1920), which won a Pulitzer Prize.

Wharton, Edith Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: cph 3a30082 )

The Age of Innocence presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the 1870s. In the story, Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, a beautiful but proper fellow member of elite society, but he falls deeply in love with Ellen Olenska, a former member of their circle who has returned to New York to escape her disastrous marriage to a Polish nobleman. Both lovers prove too obedient to conventional taboos to break with their upper-class social surroundings, however, and Newland feels compelled to renounce Ellen and marry May.

Wharton's best-known work is the long tale Ethan Frome (1911), which exploits the grimmer possibilities of the New England farm life she observed from her home in Lenox, Massachusetts. The protagonist, the farmer Ethan Frome, is married to a whining hypochondriac but falls in love with her cousin, Mattie. As she is forced to leave his household, Frome tries to end their dilemma by steering their bobsled into a tree, but he ends up only crippling Mattie for life. They spend the rest of their miserable lives together with his wife on the farm.

Wharton's short stories, which appeared in numerous collections, among them Xingu and Other Stories (1916), demonstrate her gifts for social satire and comedy, as do the four novelettes collected in Old New York (1924). Her 1915 reporting for Scribner's Magazine on the Western Front in World War I was collected as Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (1918). In her manual The Writing of Fiction (1925) she acknowledged her debt to Henry James. Among her later novels are Twilight Sleep (1927), Hudson River Bracketed (1929), and its sequel, The Gods Arrive (1932). Her autobiography, A Backward Glance, appeared in 1934. In all Wharton published more than 50 books, including fiction, short stories, travel books, historical novels, and criticism.

She lived in France after 1907, visiting the United States only at rare intervals. She was divorced from her husband in 1913 and was a close friend of novelist James in his later years.

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Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones, (born January 24, 1862, New York, New York, U.S.-died August 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France), American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born. Edith Jones came of a distinguished and long-established New York family.

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Edith was born into a tightly controlled society, where women weren’t supposed to achieve much. She powered through these challenges and wrote 40 books in 40 years. She won many prizes for her work. She partyied a lot, and was one of the few allowed on the front line during World War 1. She became a very rich and successful due to her writings. She died at the age of 75 in 1937.
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Edith Wharton was born in 1862, and is best known for her novels about upper class society which she was born into. She lived in Europe for six years after the American Civil War and was homeschooled by private tutors. Although she had privately printed a book of her poems at sixteen, she did not start to write professionally until several years after she had married. Wharton’s first official novel, “The Valley of Decision” was published in 1902, however she did do collaborations with other writers beforehand.

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Edith Wharton was born into a tightly controlled society at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage. She broke through those barriers to write over 40 books in 40 years to become the first women to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and a full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Wharton also stayed in Paris during World War I to create a chain of networks of charitable and humanitarian organizations.
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Wharton grew up in a wealthy family, and starting at the age of four Wharton and her family traveled most of Europe. During this time she became fluent in four languages and became highly educated. When she returned to America she wished to learn more, and read her fathers whole library which grew her interest in becoming an author -though this profession was not seen as a woman’s job. She married, traveled back to Europe, and settled in Paris just as WWI was beginning. She proceeded in humanitarian work through out the war, and visited the front lines and trenches multiple times. Wharton started writing at the age of six, and throughout her life she wrote many novels based on what she saw.
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