"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. With The Buccaneers, new audiences may ...

In the opening pages of “The Buccaneers,” Edith Wharton’s novel about American heiresses of the 1870s looking to marry Englishmen with titles, Mrs. St. George, the mother of the central character, ...

" Wharton's novels have many beautiful surfaces," she said, "but the action takes place in the interior, in dialog. She has such depth there, and the adapters have to figure out how to convey it ...

Edith Wharton’s unfinished 1938 novel, The Buccaneers, occupies much of its second half with the unhappy marriage of Annabel, an innocent American aesthete, and the Duke of Tintagel, a small, easily ...

Silly me. My house is a short drive from The Mount, Edith Wharton’s handsome spread in Lenox, and I visit often. But only now have I realized that this long-dead Bard of the Berkshires (several of her ...

Author Edith Wharton's historic home in Lenox, Mass., is finally debt-free, seven years after defaulting on a loan and nearly shutting its doors. The estate in Lenox is known as The Mount, and it ...

Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer Craving More of ‘The Gilded Age’? Read These Books Next. If you’re reeling after ...

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American poet, novelist and designer, and the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel “The Age of Innocence.” She grew up in the aristocracy of ...

In an online exhibition called “Edith Wharton: Designing the Drawing Room,” Julia Carabatsos ’20 uses drawing rooms as a lens to look at Wharton’s novels and her ideas on interior design which can ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. Wharton's first published novella was ...