EDITH WHARTON Edith Wharton was born as Edith Newbold Jones in an aristocratic family in the city of New York. Wharton had no formal education but she was privileged enough to use her father's library and was privately educated at home by governesses and tutors. She was expected to learn the...

Edith Wharton: A brief personal history and overview of literary achievements The cultural advancement of the 1920's has many important literary figures associated with it. Names such as T.S. Elliot, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are some of the better-known names. Edith Wharton is one ...

Kelly Spillman Mr. Lawler Advanced English 11 8 January 1999 Going Along With Society Edith Wharton was the fist woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence in 1921(Magill, Masterplots II 1: 40). She likes to show what happens to people that are not prepared to live in a complicated w...

The Tone Established in The Age of Innocence Respected as the most distinguished of Edith Wharton's novels, The Age of Innocence is a tale of the love, distress, and moral/social conflictions that late 1800s New York experiences via the indecisive affluent young man, Newland Archer. Wharto...

Probably every living being has asked themselves whether or not they are content with their lives as it has enfolded before them. It's a natural part of life to question the past as one looks into the future, however, there are certain regrets that mark the passing of certain lives that most peopl...

INNOCENT LOVE IN THE AGE OF VANITY ³ Á CLASS FIVE Edith Wharton¡¯s the Age of Innocence pride a vivid scene of ¡®vanity fair¡¯ in New York in the late 19th century. Through a tragic love story between Ellen Olenska and Newland Archer, the au...