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"Edith Wharton's Journey" is a radio adaptation, for the NPR series Radio Tales, of the short story "A Journey" from Edith Wharton's collection The Greater Inclination. The American singer and songwriter Suzanne Vega paid homage to Edith Wharton in her song "Edith Wharton's Figurines" on her 2007 studio album Beauty & Crime .
Her father was Frederic Rhinelander Jones (1846–1918), brother of novelist Edith Wharton. [8] She enjoyed long seasons at the family's summer home Reef Point Estate in Mount Desert Island, Maine. [1] She was the niece of Edith Wharton [9] and lifelong friend of Henry James, who called her 'Trix'. [10]
Ogden Codman Jr. (January 19, 1863 – January 8, 1951) was an American architect and interior decorator in the Beaux-Arts styles, and co-author with Edith Wharton of The Decoration of Houses (1897), which became a standard in American interior design.
Jones was the elder son of George Frederic Jones, a joint owner of the family-owned Chemical Bank and a prominent figure in New York real estate, and his wife Lucretia Rhinelander (née Stevens) Jones. [15] His younger sister was famed Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Edith Newbold (née Jones) Wharton, known for her novel The Age of Innocence. [3]
Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. ... upper crust family in New York—trying to escape reality through sex, drugs, money, ...
Ethan Frome is a 1911 novella by American author Edith Wharton. It details the story of a man who falls in love with his wife's cousin and the tragedies that result from the ensuing love triangle . The novel has been adapted into a film of the same name .
Built in 1853 by Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones, aunt of Edith Wharton and cousin of the Astors, it was known for being massive and imposing, with a total of 24 total rooms. ... The family sold the ...
Wharton's sometime collaborator, Ogden Codman, Jr., assisted with the architectural design. Wharton's niece, Beatrix Jones Farrand, designed the kitchen garden and the drive; Farrand was the only woman of the eleven founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Edith Wharton and her husband, Edward, lived in the Mount from 1902 to 1911.