Edith Wharton
Noun
Meaning
United States novelist (1862-1937)
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A 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.
In popular culture *The name is the title of a humorous Edith Wharton short story from 1911.
Edith Wharton came to Lenox in 1900, as an aspiring novelist in her thirties.
It’s like a modern Edith Wharton novel raised on reality television.
“Jane Austen, or maybe Edith Wharton, goes to Singapore, turning in this lively, entertaining novel of manners.
"Lily Bart is great because Edith Wharton is a genius; Emma Bovary is real because Flaubert was another one," she writes.