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9 de fev. de 2012 · In 1929, Janet Flanner published an often hilarious and largely sympathetic portrait of the author written just eight years before Wharton’s death. “Mrs. Wharton’s real excellencies are ...
26 de mai. de 2017 · At the time, Wharton, who was thirty-nine years old, was not yet a novelist, having only published shorter fiction and poetry, as well as co-authoring, with Ogden Codman, “The Decoration of ...
Edith Wharton’s 1934 memoir, A Backward Glance, begins on a curious note of historical rupture. Recalling the New York birthplace of her father, George Frederic Jones, Wharton describes a “pretty country house with classic pilasters and balustraded roof ” on land that eventually became East Eighty-first Street.
My Favorite Anti-Semite: an occasional series of tributes to writers, artists, philosophers, and others who hate us and to why we still find value in their work. You enter a radiant garden. The ...
Edith Wharton (ur. 24 stycznia 1862 w Nowym Jorku, zm. 11 sierpnia 1937 niedaleko Paryża) – amerykańska pisarka, pierwsza kobieta, która zdobyła Nagrodę Pulitzera [1], wielokrotnie nominowana do Nagrody Nobla . Pochodziła z zamożnej nowojorskiej rodziny Jonesów, nazwisko Wharton dał jej mąż, który w 1913 roku trafił do szpitala ...
The study of Edith Wharton's politics raises a number of challenges for the feminist scholar. Unlike Ezra Pound, whose conservatism has, in recent years, stimulated a wealth of critical controversy, Wharton's pedigree – her upbringing in a fashionable New York family of Dutch and English origin – has given many license to see her conservatism as a birthright, and her politics as less a ...
4 de out. de 2018 · Edith Wharton. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels, which explore the world of the privileged in America's Gilded Age, in which she lived, written in hindsight and with little mercy ...
