Wharton, Edith

1. An American author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wharton is best known for her subtle satires of New York City society, such as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence .

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Edith Wharton, of course, writes in such a startlingly sharp and close-grained way about how people live.

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Why make this an essay on the difficulty of finding sympathy for Edith Wharton instead of exploring empathy for a fellow author?

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"I've had longstanding girl crushes on Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton," said Shapton.

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I've long been fixated, low-budget Edith Wharton-like, on what happens when different strata of society rub up against each other.

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