Noun
United States novelist (1862-1937)
Source: WordNetA literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. Source: Internet
In popular culture *The name is the title of a humorous Edith Wharton short story from 1911. Source: Internet
Edith Wharton came to Lenox in 1900, as an aspiring novelist in her thirties. Source: Internet
It’s like a modern Edith Wharton novel raised on reality television. Source: Internet
“Jane Austen, or maybe Edith Wharton, goes to Singapore, turning in this lively, entertaining novel of manners. Source: Internet
"Lily Bart is great because Edith Wharton is a genius; Emma Bovary is real because Flaubert was another one," she writes. Source: Internet