Edith wharton
Transcript of Edith wharton
EDITH WHARTON
By Kaitlyn Williams
BIOGRAPHY
• Born in 1862 and died in 1937
• Built The Mount in 1902
• She wrote over 40 books in 40
years
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• An honorary Doctorate of
Letters from Yale University
• Full membership in the
American Academy of Arts and
Letters
THE MOUNT
WORKS
Ethan Frome (1911)
The Ghost Stories of
Edith Wharton (1937)
The House of Mirth
(1905)
Twilight Sleep (1927)
Italian Villas and Their
Gardens (1904)
ETHAN FROME
LETTERS OF FRIENDSHIP
She was said to be
a “Lady James” through her
writing, but she in fact made
more money in her career
than he did. She talks about
buying a car with the money
she receives from one novel,
and he talks about how he is
able to buy a wheelbarrow,
that needed paint.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
James, Henry, and Edith Wharton. Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters,
1900-1915. Ed. Lyall Harris Powers. New York: Scribner's, 1990. Print.
"The Mount | Edith Wharton's Home." The Mount | Edith Wharton's Home. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2012. <http://www.edithwharton.org/>.
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. New York: Scribner, 1939. Print.