Edith Wharton

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Standard Name: Wharton, Edith
Birth Name: Edith Newbold Jones
Married Name: Edith Newbold Wharton
EW , early twentieth-century novelist of American nationality, upper-middle-class status and subject-matter, and European cultural interests, has suffered in critical estimation by being ranked second to her friend and contemporary Henry James . Writing through the modernist period, she remained traditional in her techniques. Most of her stories revolve around the dilemmas faced by women in a society which offers them little while depending on their compliance. She produced non-fictional prose, short fiction, travel writing, autobiography, and letters as well as the novels for which she is best known. She is currently enjoying a boom in reputation.
Monochrome cabinet photograph of Edith Wharton, taken by E. F. Cooper, at Newport, Rhode Island. Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. She is seated looking at the camera, in a jacket with leg-of-mutton sleeves and tight bodice, with a fall of lace in front, and a small hat with two feathers sticking up. She has two little dogs on her lap.

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Textual Features Ali Smith
The volume features 101 different women writers, each publication emblematic of the year for which its author is featured. Its contents range from the title-inspiring Miles Franklin 's My Brilliant Career (1901) through Edith Wharton
Textual Features Anita Brookner
The novels have been said to owe more to the French tradition than to the English—though French critics have read her as belonging to an English women's tradition, while English reviewers have cited most frequently...
Textual Features Rebecca Harding Davis
Frances has a strong sense of self, yet she wastes her life and talent pandering to the tastes of the upper classes and sacrificing herself for the sake of her son. Through a character named...
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
Writing for these genres as well as for the stage, TW often revisits and reshapes the work of earlier writers. She wrote the screenplay for The Children, a Film Four International production (1990) adapted...
Textual Production Mary Webb
In LondonMW wrote reviews for The Spectator and the Bookman, and published some stories in The English Review.
Davies, Linda. Mary Webb Country. Palmers Press, 1990.
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Her final literary work, a review of a novel by Edith Wharton ...
Textual Production Flora Annie Steel
FAS wrote an adaptation of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream (or more probably of part of it) to be acted by her younger grandson and the young Henry John . Her biographer Violet Powell...
Textual Production Anita Brookner
In the early 1980s AB did a good deal of reviewing of literary works for the Times Literary Supplement.
Skinner, John. The Fictions of Anita Brookner: Illusions of Romance. Macmillan, 1992.
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In 1988 she edited her own selection, with introduction, of The Stories of Edith Wharton
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
In her essays, reviews, introductions, and lectures, QDL also developed varied critiques of such authors as Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot , Charlotte Yonge , Marie Corelli , Edith Wharton , Naomi Mitchison , Amabel Williams-Ellis
Textual Production Penelope Lively
PL has published introductions to works by other writers including Ivy Compton-Burnett , Edith Wharton , Willa Cather , and Carol Shields . In September 2015 she reviewed Alison Light 's Common People: In Pursuit...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susan Hill
SH gives free rein to her enjoyment of list-making. Writers mentioned (not in a list or lists) include E. Nesbit (read by Noel Coward on his deathbed), Pamela Hansford Johnson and her husband C. P. Snow

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