Edith
Americannoun
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Ms. Kanakia quotes heavily from several authors—from Aristotle to Nietzsche to Edith Wharton—to bolster her argument.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
In “The House of Mirth,” Edith Wharton’s gut-wrenching Gilded Age tragedy, Lily Bart, beautiful and elegant and poor, has been raised to marry for money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Edith Roosevelt didn’t engage in public declarations but placed herself at the physical nexus of decision-making.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
At 19, Edith married Béla Eger, who was from a wealthy Slovak Jewish family and had survived the war as a resistance fighter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Edith planned to give birth here, with the assistance of a midwife.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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