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Versions of her mother, Lucretia Jones, often appeared in Wharton's fiction. Biographer Hermione Lee described it as "one of the most lethal acts of revenge ever taken by a writing daughter." [25] In her memoir, A Backward Glance, Wharton describes her mother as indolent, spendthrift, censorious, disapproving, superficial, icy, dry and ironic. [25]
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 ...
Among his first cousins were John Austin Stevens, founder of the Sons of the Revolution, and Lucretia Stevens (née Rhinelander) Jones, the mother of author Edith Wharton. [5] His maternal grandfather was Albert Gallatin, the 4th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and France.
Wharton's first published novella was The Touchstone, set in old New York, like many of her stories. It follows Stephen Glennard, who is suddenly impoverished and can't marry his beautiful ...
Photograph of Mary's daughter, architect Beatrix Farrand.. On March 24, 1870, she was married to Frederic Rhinelander "Freddy" Jones (1846–1918) in New York City. [14] 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]
Through his daughter Mary Lucretia, Stevens was the grandfather of Frederic W. Rhinelander, [19] president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Lucretia Stevens (née Rhinelander) Jones (1824–1901), mother to novelist and decorator Edith Wharton (née Edith Newbold Jones) and Frederic Rhinelander Jones. [2]
Edith Wharton, the writer of The Muse's Tragedy. Edith Wharton (Newbold Jones) was born on the 24 January 1862 in New York. She was the third child of Georges Frederic and Lucretia Jones (a rich family - her mother was an aristocrat). During her childhood, Edith was a brilliant girl and as a teenager she began to write a short story called ...
The House of Mirth is a novel by American author Edith Wharton, published on 14 October 1905.It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society in the 1890s.