Edith Wharton
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Awards
- 🏆 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel🏆 National Women's Hall of Fame🏆 Knight of the Legion of Honour
Trending & Selected Quotes
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"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interest…"
"In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once."
"I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it."
"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."
"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
Works & Publications
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Timeline
1862
Born
Birth1937
Died
Death
Family & Connections
- father:
- George Frederic Jones
- mother:
- Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander
- spouse:
- Edward Robbins Wharton
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Edith's philosophy
Source Attribution
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