Edith Wharton
- Birth name: Edith Newbold Jones
American
American author - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father George Frederic Jones
- Brother: Frederick Rhinelander Jones
American author - AsNotedIn
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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1862/01/24 | Edith Wharton is born at 14 W 23th St in New York City. | Born | Edith Wharton's Childhood Home | New York City | Edith Wharton's Birthday | ||
1866/00/00 | Jones family travels to Italy, France, Spain and Germany. | Visitor | |||||
1872/00/00 | Jones family returns to New York. They summer in Newport, Rhode Island. | Visitor | |||||
1877/00/00 | Aspiring novelist Edith Wharton writes "Fast and Loose", the story of an egoist young woman. | Author | Fast and Loose (Wharton book) | ||||
1878/00/00 | Verses - published | Author | Verses | ||||
1885/04/29 | At age 23, Edith Newbold Jones marries Edward Robbins Wharton, who is 12 years her senior, at the Trinity Chapel Complex in New York City. | Bride | Trinity Chapel Complex | New York City | Marriage of Edith Wharton and Edward Robbins Wharton | ||
1888/00/00 | The Wharton family take a Mediterranean cruise with James Van Alen. | Guest | |||||
1889/00/00 | The Wharton's buy Land's End, an oceanfront estate at the end of Bellevue Avenue. | Home | Lands End Mansion | Newport, RI | |||
1891/00/00 | Edith Wharton buys a townhouse at 882-884 Park Ave, New York and hires Ogden Codman Jr to redesign the interior. | Home | |||||
1892/00/00 | Sometime around 1892, Edith Wharton writes "Bunner Sisters". | Author | Bunner Sisters | ||||
1894/00/00 | The Whartons meet Vernon Lee in Italy. Born Violet Paget in 1856 to English parents who lived on the Continent, Lee authored a number of novels, short stories, travel essays, studies of Italian art and music, psychological aesthetics, polemics. | Life | |||||
1897/00/00 | "The Decoration of Houses" is published. | Author | The Decoration of Houses | ||||
1899/02/25 | Souls Belated - published | Author | Souls Belated | ||||
1899/03/25 | Written in the 1890s, "A Journey" by Edith Wharton is included in 'The Greater Inclination'. | Author | A Journey (Short Story) | ||||
1900/07/00 | Whartons summer at The Poplars in Lenox. | Visitor | |||||
1901/00/00 | Eager to escape Newport, Whartons buy 113-acre Laurel Lake Farm in Lenox for $40,600. Edith plans The Mount, a home created for a designer, gardener, hostess and writer. | Architect, Home | The Mount | Lenox, MA | |||
1901/02/29 | "The Angel at the Grave" is published in Scribner's Magazine on February 29th, 1901 and appeared in the collection Crucial Instances the same year. | Author | The Angel at the Grave | ||||
1902/00/00 | "The Mission of Jane" by Edith Wharton is published in Harper's Monthly. | Author | The Mission of Jane (Short Story) | ||||
1902/11/00 | "The Lady's Maid's Bell" by Edith Wharton is published in Scribner's. | Author | The Lady's Maid's Bell (short story) | ||||
1903/12/00 | Although she tried to meet Henry James in 1885, Edith Wharton makes the acquaintance of Mr James in London. | Home | |||||
1904/00/00 | Italian Villas and Their Gardens - published | Author | Italian Villas and Their Gardens | ||||
1905/00/00 | Volunteer Associate Manager, Edith Wharton, and Assistant Librarian, Kate Spencer, become friends while working at the Lenox Library. | Work | Lenox Library | Lenox, MA | |||
1905/00/00 | Italian Backgrounds - published | Author | Italian Backgrounds | ||||
1905/03/16 | TR host Edith Wharton, George Cabot Lodge, his wife Mathilda, and Cornelia Bryce Pinchot for a literary salon. | Guest | White House Executive Residence | The White House | |||
1905/10/14 | "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton is published by Charles Scribner's Sons. | Author | The House of Mirth (book) | ||||
1906/12/00 | Edith and Teddy sublet an apartment from George Vanderbilt at 53 rue de Varenne, Paris. | Home | Residence de Wharton Vanderbilt | Paris | |||
1907/00/00 | Wharton writes a story for her French tutor to improve her conversational skills. Written in French, the characters include a poor New England farmer named Hart, his wife, Anna, and Anna's niece, Mattie. | Author | Ethan Frome (book) | Residence de Wharton Vanderbilt | Paris | ||
1907/03/02 | Madame de Treymes - published | Author | Madame de Treymes | ||||
1908/00/00 | The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories - published | Author | The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories | ||||
1908/00/00 | Teddy Robbins Wharton's mental state is determined to be incurable. | Life | Marriage of Edith Wharton and Edward Robbins Wharton | ||||
1909/00/00 | Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse - published | Author | Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse | ||||
1910/00/00 | Whartons separate. Edith Wharton rents an apartment in Paris, France. | Life | Marriage of Edith Wharton and Edward Robbins Wharton | ||||
1910/01/00 | Edith Wharton's "Afterward" is published in Century Magazine. | Author | Afterward (short story) | ||||
1910/06/00 | "The Eyes" by Edith Wharton is published in Scribner's. | Author | The Eyes (short story) | ||||
1910/10/00 | Tales of Men and Ghosts - published | Author | Tales of Men and Ghosts | ||||
1911/00/00 | The Whartons sell The Mount in Lenox, Mass. Edith moves permanently to France and Teddy returns to his sister's home in Lenox, Mass. | Bride | The Mount | Lenox, MA | Marriage of Edith Wharton and Edward Robbins Wharton | ||
1911/07/00 | Derived from a French saying, Autres temps, autres moeurs (other times, other customs), Edith Wharton's "Autre Temps ..." is published in Century Magazine as "Times, Other Manners". | Author | Autre Temps ... (Short Story) | ||||
1911/08/00 | "Ethan Frome" is serialized in Scribner's Magazine from August to October 1911. They paid $2,500 for the serial rights and gave Edith a $2,000 advance against book royalties. | Author | Ethan Frome (book) | ||||
1912/00/00 | The Reef - published | Author | The Reef | ||||
1912/02/00 | "Ethan Frome" is published simultaneously in London and New York. | Author | Ethan Frome (book) | ||||
1914/00/00 | Edith Wharton establishes American Hostels for Refugees. | Benefactor | |||||
1914/08/01 | War? Of course there couldn't be war! .... Paris went on steadily with its mid-summer business of feeding, dressing and amusing the great army of tourists who were the only invaders she had seen in nearly half a century. - EW | Guest | Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort | Hotel de Crillon | Paris | ||
1915/00/00 | France, from Dunkerque to Belfort - published | Author | Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort | ||||
1915/00/00 | Edith Wharton creates Children of Flanders Rescue Committee. | Benefactor | |||||
1916/10/00 | Edith Wharton's "Xingu and Other Stories" is published by Charles Scribner's Sons. | Author | Xingu and Other Stories | ||||
1916/10/00 | Edith Wharton's "Xingu and Other Stories" is published by Charles Scribner's Sons. | Author | Bunner Sisters | ||||
1917/00/00 | Written in Paris during the Great War, "Summer" is published by Charles Scribner's Sons. | Author | Summer | ||||
1918/00/00 | "The Marne" by Edith Wharton published by Macmillan and Co, St Martin's street, London. Printed by R and R Clark, Edinburgh. | Author | The Marne (book) | ||||
1919/00/00 | Edith Wharton moves to Pavillon Colombe. She leases Ste Claire during winter months. | Home | |||||
1920/10/00 | "The Age of Innocence" is published by Appleton in book form in October 1920 in New York and London. | Author | The Age of Innocence (book) | 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | |||
1920/10/00 | In Morocco - published | Author | In Morocco | ||||
1921/06/00 | Edith Wharton, the first woman to be honored, receives the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "The Age of Innocence" for "best presenting the wholesome atmosphere of American life." | Author | The Age of Innocence (book) | 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | |||
1923/00/00 | A Son at the Front - published | Author | A Son at the Front | ||||
1924/00/00 | Old New York - published | Author | Old New York | ||||
1925/00/00 | "Bewitched" is first published in the Pictorial Review. | Author | Bewitched (short story) | ||||
1927/00/00 | Edith Wharton is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927. | Nominee | |||||
1928/00/00 | Edith Wharton is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. | Nominee | |||||
1930/00/00 | Edith Wharton is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. | Nominee | |||||
1932/00/00 | The Gods Arrive - published | Author | The Gods Arrive | ||||
1934/00/00 | A Backward Glance - published | Author | A Backward Glance | ||||
1934/11/10 | "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton appears in Liberty magazine. | Author | Roman Fever (short story) | ||||
1935/00/00 | "The Looking Glass" by Edith Wharton is published. | Author | The Looking Glass (Wharton Short Story) | ||||
1937/00/00 | "The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton" is published. | Author | The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton | ||||
1937/08/11 | Edith Wharton dies at age 75 at Pavillon Colombe, a suburban villa in the village of St Brice-sous-Foret. She is buried, in the Cimetiere des Gonards in Versailles, close to her friend Walter Berry. | Died |
117 Creative Works by Edith Wharton »
Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
Verses | Author | Poems | 1878/00/00 | |
The Decoration of Houses | Author | Book | 1897/00/00 | |
The Muse's Tragedy (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1899/01/00 | |
Souls Belated | Author | Short Story | 1899/02/25 | |
The Portrait (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1899/03/25 | |
A Journey (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1899/03/25 |
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The Twilight of the God (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1899/03/25 | |
A Coward (Wharton short story) | Author | Short Story | 1899/03/25 | |
A Cup of Cold Water (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1899/03/25 | |
The Pelican (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1899/03/25 | |
The Greater Inclination | Author | Book | 1899/03/25 | |
The Touchstone | Author | Book | 1900/00/00 | |
Copy: A Dialogue (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1901/00/00 | |
The Moving Finger (Wharton Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1901/00/00 | |
Crucial Instances | Author | Book | 1901/00/00 | |
The Rembrandt (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1901/00/00 | |
The Duchess at Prayer (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1901/00/00 | |
The Confessional (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1901/00/00 | |
The Recovery (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1901/00/00 | |
The Angel at the Grave | Author | Short Story | 1901/02/29 | |
The Quicksand (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1902/00/00 | |
The Valley of Decision | Author | Novel | 1902/00/00 | |
The Mission of Jane (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1902/00/00 |
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The Reckoning | Author | Short Story | 1902/08/00 | |
The Lady's Maid's Bell (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1902/11/00 | |
The Dilettante (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1903/00/00 | |
Sanctuary (Wharton book) | Author | Mezzobula | 1903/00/00 | |
A Venetian Night's Entertainment (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1903/12/00 | |
The Descent of Man and Other Stories | Author | Short Story Collection | 1904/00/00 | |
The Descent of Man (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1904/00/00 | |
Italian Villas and Their Gardens | Author | Essay | 1904/00/00 | |
The Letter (Wharton Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1904/00/00 | |
The Other Two (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1904/02/00 |
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The Last Asset (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1904/08/00 | |
The Pot-Boiler (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1904/12/00 | |
The Best Man (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1905/00/00 | |
Italian Backgrounds | Author | Book | 1905/00/00 | |
The House of Mirth (book) | Author | Novel | 1905/10/14 |
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In Trust (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1906/00/00 | |
The Hermit and the Wild Woman (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1906/02/00 | |
The Fruit of the Tree | Author | Book | 1907/00/00 | |
Madame de Treymes | Author | Mezzobula | 1907/03/02 | |
A Motor-Flight Through France | Author | Book | 1908/00/00 | |
The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories | Author | Book | 1908/00/00 | |
Expiation (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1908/00/00 | |
The Verdict (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1908/06/00 | |
The Pretext (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1908/08/00 | |
Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse | Author | Poems | 1909/00/00 | |
Afterward (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1910/01/00 |
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The Eyes (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1910/06/00 | |
Tales of Men and Ghosts | Author | Short Story Collection | 1910/10/00 | |
Autre Temps ... (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/07/00 |
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The Reef | Author | Book | 1912/00/00 | |
Ethan Frome (book) | Author | Mezzobula | 1912/02/00 |
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The Custom of the Country | Author | Book | 1913/00/00 | |
The Triumph of Night (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort | Author | Book | 1915/00/00 | |
The Book of the Homeless | Author | Book | 1916/00/00 | |
Xingu (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1916/02/27 | |
Kerfol (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1916/05/00 | |
The Long Run (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1916/10/00 | |
The Choice (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1916/10/00 | |
Coming Home (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1916/10/00 | |
Bunner Sisters | Author | Mezzobula | 1916/10/00 |
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Xingu and Other Stories | Author | Book | 1916/10/00 | |
Summer | Author | Book | 1917/00/00 |
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The Marne (book) | Author | Mezzobula | 1918/00/00 | |
French Ways and Their Meaning | Author | Book | 1919/00/00 | |
In Morocco | Author | Travelogue | 1920/10/00 | |
The Age of Innocence (book) | Author | Novel | 1920/10/00 |
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The Glimpses of the Moon | Author | Book | 1922/00/00 |
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A Son at the Front | Author | Book | 1923/00/00 | |
Old New York | Author | Florilegium | 1924/00/00 | |
The Writing of Fiction | Author | Book | 1925/00/00 | |
Bewitched (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1925/00/00 | |
Miss Mary Pask (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1925/00/00 | |
The Mother's Recompense | Author | Book | 1925/00/00 | |
Here and Beyond | Author | Short Story Collection | 1926/00/00 | |
The Seed of the Faith (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1926/00/00 | |
Twelve Poems | Author | Book | 1926/00/00 | |
The Young Gentlemen (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1926/00/00 | |
The Temperate Zone (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1926/00/00 | |
Velvet Ear-Pads (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1926/00/00 | |
Twilight Sleep | Author | Book | 1927/01/02 | |
The Children | Author | Book | 1928/00/00 | |
Hudson River Bracketed | Author | Book | 1929/00/00 | |
Mr Jones (Wharton Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/00/00 | |
The Refugees (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/00/00 | |
A Bottle of Perrier (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/00/00 | |
After Holbein (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/00/00 | |
Certain People | Author | Short Story Collection | 1930/00/00 | |
Dieu D'amour (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/00/00 | |
Atrophy (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/00/00 | |
Pomegranate Seed (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/00/00 | |
The Gods Arrive | Author | Book | 1932/00/00 | |
Diagnosis (Wharton Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1933/00/00 | |
Joy in the House (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1933/00/00 | |
A Glimpse (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1933/00/00 | |
Human Nature | Author | Short Story Collection | 1933/00/00 | |
The Day of the Funeral (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1933/00/00 | |
Her Son (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1933/00/00 | |
A Backward Glance | Author | Book | 1934/00/00 | |
Roman Fever (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1934/11/10 |
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The Looking Glass (Wharton Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1935/00/00 | |
The World Over | Author | Short Story Collection | 1936/00/00 | |
The Blond Beast (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/00/00 | |
The Legend (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/00/00 | |
The Bolted Door (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/00/00 | |
The Letters (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/00/00 | |
The Daunt Diana (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/00/00 | |
All Souls (Wharton Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/00/00 | |
Full Circle (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/00/00 | |
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton | Author | Short Story Collection | 1937/00/00 | |
The Debt (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/00/00 | |
His Father's Son (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/00/00 | |
The Buccaneers | Author | Book | 1938/00/00 | |
Fast and Loose (Wharton book) | Author | Mezzobula | 1938/00/00 |
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