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  1. Edith Wharton
    Edith WhartonAmerican writer and designer
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  2. BornEdith Newbold Jones · January 24, 1862 · New York City, U.S.
    DiedAugust 11, 1937 (aged 75) · Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France
    SpouseEdward Wharton · (m. 1885; div. 1913)
    RelativesEbenezer Stevens (maternal great-grandfather) · John Austin Stevens (great-uncle) · Alexander Stevens (great-uncle) · Frederic W. Rhinelander (uncle) · Samuel Stevens Sands (cousin) · Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (cousin) · Frederic Rhinelander King (cousin) · Byam K. Stevens (cousin) · Frederic W. Stevens (cousin) · Alexander Henry Stevens (cousin) · Thomas Newbold (cousin) · Eugenie Mary Ladenburg Davie (cousin) · Mary Cadwalader Rawle Jones (sister-in-law)
    Biography

    Edith Newbold Jones was born on January 24, 1862, to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City. To her friends and family, she was kn… See more

    Writing

    Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her 15 novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, boo… See more

    Adaptations

    Source: (Marshall 1996, pp. 21–25)
    The House of Mirth, a 1918 silent film adaptation (6 reels) (of the 1905 novel) directed by French film director Albert Capellani, starring Katherine Harris Barrymore as … See more

    In popular culture

    • Edith Wharton was honored on a U.S. postage stamp issued on September 5, 1980.
    • In The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Edith Wharton (Clare Higgins) travels across North Africa with Indiana Jones in … See more

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