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It leads to trouble between the two soon-to-be spouses. Archer is intrigued by Ellen yet bound by duty to marry May. Edith won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel in 1921. She was the first woman ever to win this award. Edith Wharton died on August 11, 1937, at her home in France.
Wharton teve forte influência de Guerra e Paz e Anna Kariênina para escrever A Época da Inocência. A heroína que se encontra em um casamento forçado e almeja a separação do marido, pode ser comparada tanto à Newland quanto à Olenska. No entanto, ao contrário do trágico final do romance de Tolstói, o final dos personagens de Wharton ...
伊迪丝·华顿，1862年1月24日-1937年8月11日)，原名伊迪丝·纽伯·琼斯，她是美国十九世纪末二十世纪初的一位重要的女作家，一生著作颇丰。从她第一部大获成功的《欢乐之家》到她的经典之作《纯真年代》，华顿在二十世纪初共创作出二十余部小说。这些优秀的作品奠定了她在美国文学史中的地位 ...
Edith Wharton Biography. Edith Wharton was born Edith Jones into an upper-class New York City family in 1862. Typical for members of her class at that time, Edith had a distant relationship with her parents. She received a marriage proposal at a young age, but the wedding was ultimately thwarted by her prospective in-laws’ perception of the ...
Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones into a wealthy New York family on January 24, 1862, at 14 West 23 rd St. The third child and only daughter of George Frederic and Lucretia Rhinelander Jones, the young Edith spent much of her childhood in Europe, mainly France, Germany, Italy, developing both her gift for languages and a deep appreciation for beauty – in art, architecture and literature.
There are no velvet ropes and stanchions, instead we invite our visitors to sit and interact with the rooms. Interpretive exhibits throughout the house explore Wharton’s life, her humanitarian efforts, literary legacy, and lives of the servants. The house and gardens are open daily May-October and most weekends, November-February.
The Mount has evolved from a traditional historic house museum to a vibrant cultural center, engaging audiences through our year-round artistic and literary programs. Susan Wissler, executive director, talks about this transformation in an interview directed by Jason Brown. The Mount is the home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, MA - the Berkshires.
