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Bookmark or Share- Edith Wharton Biography, Works, and Quotes - SparkNotesWharton found the notion of the tragic sledding crash to be irresistible as a potential extended metaphor for the wrongdoings of a secret love affair. In 1921, Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her highly esteemed novel The Age of Innocence.
- Biography of Edith Wharton, American Novelist - ThoughtCoEdith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer. A daughter of the Gilded Age, she criticized the rigid societal constraints and thinly veiled immoralities of her society.
- The Mount - Edith Wharton's HomeEdith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a tightly controlled society at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage. Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of America’s greatest writers.
- Life Story: Edith Wharton - Women & the American StoryLife Story: Edith Wharton (1862–1937) Socialite and Novelist The story of a novelist who wrote critically about New York’s high society during the Gilded Age.
- Edith Wharton - WikipediaEdith Newbold Wharton (/ ˈhwɔːrtən /; née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
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