Edith Wharton

Jayne has written a new book, "Classical Principles for Modern Design: Lessons from Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman's The Decoration of Houses" (The Monacelli Press), that revisits the classic.

The more sympathetic Edith Wharton described "Austen's delicate genius" as "flourishing] on the very edge of a tidal wave of prudery" (Writing 62).

Liverright advertisements boasted about "a new sort of book about colored people--the birthday of a fine novel about Negroes of the upper classes of New York and Philadelphia--as impressive and vital in their special environment as the upper class whites whom Edith Wharton ...

My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann

Women's Issues Book Group Discussing "Summer,'' by Edith Wharton, 7 p.m.

Harvey Greene, sources and texts of early poems by Edith Wharton, new information on Hemingway's "3 very fine weeks" in Constantinople in 1922, Thomas Wolfe's revisions of From Death to Morning, and Tennessee Williams' unpublished one-act play The Magic Tower.

2011: Edith Wharton: Back to Compostela/Regreso a Compostela.

Finally, readers will enjoy Helena Gurfinkel's review of My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann, edited by Irene Goldman-Price.

As one of New York's first residential hotels, past guests have included authors Henry Miller and Edith Wharton and musician Buddy Holly.

But its mission is also about location, location, location--a preoccupation Edith Wharton herself would understand.

In A Backward Glance (1934), Edith Wharton recalled her "charitable work" during the World War I, for which France awarded her the decoration of "Chevalier" of the National Order of Legion of Honor, in 1916, and King Albert of Belgium awarded her the Medal of Queen Elizabeth, two years later (1): "Many women with whom I was in contact during the war had obviously found their vocation in nursing the wounded, or in other philanthropic activities ...

Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton and Louis Auchincloss-Towles ...

Some 200 years of literary history use the lifelong interest of the contributors to create insights on top literary figures from Samuel Johnson to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton. These imaginary interviews are vivid, thought-provoking intellectual and emotional surveys recommended for any college-level literary library!

Kerfol is a short story, set in France, written by Edith Wharton. It appeared in Scribner's Magazine 59 (March 1916) with illustrations by Elenore Plaisted Abbott and is readily available to be read online.