Edith Wharton: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Biographies include R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton (1975, reprinted 1985); Eleanor Dwight, Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life (1994); Shari Benstock, No Gifts from Chance (1994); Susan Goodman, Edith Wharton’s Inner Circle (1994); and Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton (2007). Analyses of Wharton’s work are found in Barbara A. White, Edith Wharton: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991); Carol J. Singley, Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (1995); and Cynthia Griffin Wolff, A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton, 2nd ed. (1995).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: BBC - In Our Time - Edith Wharton. Oct 17, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 07, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC - In Our Time - Edith Wharton. Feb 23, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 20, 2026
Add new Web site: Theodore Roosevelt Center - Edith Wharton. Jan 04, 2025
Add new Web site: Official Site of The Mount - Edith Wharton's Home. Nov 07, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Annenberg Learner - Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Mar 15, 2024
Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - Edith Wharton (1862�1937). Dec 21, 2023
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Edith Wharton. Sep 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery - Edith Wharton's World. Jul 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Women and the American Story - Life Story: Edith Wharton. May 27, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Site of The Mount - Edith Wharton's Home. Mar 15, 2023
Corrected display issue. Mar 09, 2021
Add new Web site: National Women�s Hall of Fame - Edith Wharton. Feb 01, 2019
Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Biography of Edith Wharton. Jul 23, 2016
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Edith Wharton, 75, Is Dead in France. Jul 23, 2016
Added mention of Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort. Feb 02, 2016
Added photograph. May 31, 2013
Add new Web site: The Literature Network - Biography of Edith Wharton. Feb 07, 2013
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Edith Wharton. Feb 07, 2013
Photo of Wharton (c. 1895) added. Nov 18, 2009
Bibliography revised and updated. Oct 07, 2008
Added new Web site: Domestic Goddesses. Jun 09, 2006
Added new Web site: Bibliomania - Edith Wharton. May 26, 2006
Added new Web site: Page by Page Books - The Glimpses of the Moon. May 11, 2006
Added new Web site: Page by Page Books - Summer. May 11, 2006
Added new Web site: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. May 10, 2006
Article revised. Jan 13, 2000
Article added to new online database. Nov 10, 1999
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