Edith Wharton, 1862 - 1937
1915 Portrait
Born: 24 January 1862, New York City
Died: 11 August 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-For
Born Edith Newbold Jones, some believe that "keeping up with the Joneses" was originally meant as an attempt to keep up with her father's family. The family traveled extensively so Edith was educated entirely by tutors. She married Teddy Wharton in 1885, they shared a love of travel but apparently not much else. She was a highly regarded landscape architect and interior designer in her time and entertained the cream of New York society in a home of her own design at Lenox, Massachusetts. After her divorce she moved permanently to France, using family connections she had access to the front lines during the war. In 1921 The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win that award. She suffered several strokes in her last months. During her final illness she continued to write in bed, dropping each page on the floor as she finished it.
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- 'You must write,' she said, administering the most exquisite flattery that human lips could give. permalink
Edith Wharton - A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. permalink
Edith Wharton - After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others that (one is fairly sure) don't exist - or exist in a less measure. permalink
Edith Wharton - Letter to Robert Grant (19 November 1907) - An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. permalink
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence (1920) - Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. permalink
Edith Wharton - The Writing of Fiction (1925) - As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. permalink
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth (1905) - Before Selden left college he had learned that there are as many different ways of going without money as of spending it. permalink
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth (1905) - Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. permalink
Edith Wharton - Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. permalink
Edith Wharton - A Backward Glance (1934) - Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. permalink
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth (1905) - He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. permalink
Edith Wharton - His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen. permalink
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence (1920) - How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? permalink
Edith Wharton - Letter to Barrett Wendell (19 July 1919) - I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting. permalink
Edith Wharton - I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. permalink
Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome (1911)
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