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.