NEW YORK (AP) — When World War I broke out in 1914, Edith Wharton’s initial response was less as a storyteller in search of material than as a citizen and intrepid witness.

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The Real Buccaneers: American Dollar Princesses of the Gilded Age & Edith Wharton ...

A trove of 136 Edith Wharton letters—some written when Wharton was just fourteen years old—sold at Christie’s yesterday to an American educational institution for $182,500. It’s a tremendous treat for ...

In the upcoming issue of the magazine, Rebecca Mead writes about Edith Wharton’s early letters to her governess, Anna Bahlmann. Wharton had requested that her letters be destroyed, but Bahlmann’s ...

My favorite high school teacher introduced The Age of Innocence by saying, “Maybe not for everyone. Probably not for any of you.” That sums up how most people feel. Even though Edith Wharton—who ...

Had James W. Tuttleton attempted to verify his allegations about me in his zealous defense of R.W.B. Lewis (March 1989), he would have discovered the inaccuracy of his assumptions about my work on ...

In The Atlantic's early years, he was the poet of the age. But was he a great poet? David Barber introduces a selection of Longfellow's poems that were originally published in The Atlantic. From the ...

The trouble with Summer...is that Mrs. Wharton rather forces her note. It is not that seduction as a scheme for literary bouleversement is a little out of date. There is no such thing as a catastrophe ...

Edith Wharton is not a writer most of us probably associate with war. With the frosty, treacherous, yet bloodless drawing-room battles of Gilded Age New York, yes. With the stink and smoking gore of a ...

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Try this short quiz on the last stop for five popular writers. By J. D. Biersdorfer Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer ...