Edith Wharton

Birth : 1862-01-24,

Death : 1937-08-11

History

From Wikipedia Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862–August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.

Movies

The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
Novel
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Novel
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome
Novel
Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, spirited person. She and Ethan fall in love much to the dismay of Zeena.
The Children
The Children
Novel
Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship.
Bewtiched
Bewtiched
Story
The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.
Afterward
Afterward
Story
An American couple buy an English Manor House - complete with resident sypernatural forces...
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
Novel
Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her...
The Old Maid
The Old Maid
Novel
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Novel
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
The Marriage Playground
The Marriage Playground
Novel
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Writer
Directed by Wesley Ruggles.
The Glimpses of the Moon
The Glimpses of the Moon
Novel
The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
Novel
Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.
The Custom of the Country
The Custom of the Country
Novel
Undine Spragg, a cunning and attractive woman living in New York during the early part of the Twentieth Century, rises to the top of the city's high society.