"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. With The Buccaneers, new audiences may ...

In the opening pages of “The Buccaneers,” Edith Wharton’s novel about American heiresses of the 1870s looking to marry Englishmen with titles, Mrs. St. George, the mother of the central character, ...

THE GODS ARRIVE—Edith Wharton— Appleton ($2.50). Edith Wharton lets one of her characters say: “I’m rather in a difficulty about you American novelists. Your opportunity’s so immense, and . . . well, ...

In 1911, Edith Wharton found herself stuck at the Belmont Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Her life was stagnant. She was at the beginning of her divorce from Teddy Wharton. They were at the Belmont, ...

Edith Wharton is still topical. A recent humongous biography has caused me to go back and investigate this early 20th-century female novelist who quite carefully skewered fashionable New York society, ...

Wharton's opinion Anne Schuyler, house manager at The Mount, who has extensively researched the exhibit, said Wharton saw many plays adapted from her books, and though she may never have seen any of ...

The Men Who Saved the World, the Pulitzer winner’s lost manuscript found in Yale archives, appears in Strand magazine A never-before-published short story by Edith Wharton, the first female Pulitzer ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. Wharton's first published novella was ...