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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 .
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.
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, ...
An alternative theory is that the Joneses of the saying refer to the wealthy family of Edith Wharton's father, the Joneses. [8] The Joneses were a prominent New York family with substantial interests in Chemical Bank as a result of marrying the daughters of the bank's founder, John Mason. [9]
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.
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Among his sisters was Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, who married George Frederic Jones [2] (parents of novelist and decorator Edith (née Jones) Wharton and Frederic Rhinelander Jones); [3] Mary Elizabeth Rhinelander, who married Thomas Haines Newbold [2] (parents of New York State Senator Thomas Newbold [4]); and Eliza Lucille Rhinelander, who ...
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]