An Edith Wharton Chronology

by Harden, Edgar F.

• ISBN13: 9781403995834
• ISBN10: 1403995834
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This new volume in the Author Chronology series illuminates the writing of Edith Wharton by detailing her experiences and placing her in her social context. Edith Wharton was a prolific as well as a many-sided writer, who created not only novels, novellas, short stories, and poems, but also a notable series of travel writings, and did translations, pieces for the theatre, and essays on other writers and their works, as well as on the creation and criticism of fiction.This account of Wharton's personal and professional life provides an invaluable insight into an important American woman writer of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	viii
Acknowledgements	x
List of Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(2)
Ancestry and Family	3	(2)
Chronology	5	(90)
A Wharton Who's Who	95	(14)
Bibliography	109	(28)
Index	137