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In the view of Judith E. Funston, writing on Edith Wharton in American National Biography, What is most notable about A Backward Glance, however, is what it does not tell: her criticism of Lucretia Jones [her mother], her difficulties with Teddy, and her affair with Morton Fullerton, which did not come to light until her papers, deposited in ...
The Coquette or, The History of Eliza Wharton is an epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster. It was published anonymously in 1797, and did not appear under the author's real name until 1856, 16 years after Foster's death.
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 ...
The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The story is set in the 1870s, around the time Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937 and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy inviting Nan to a house party, to which Guy Thwaite has
The story of Ethan Frome had initially begun as a French-language composition that Wharton had to write while studying the language in Paris, [2] but several years later she took the story up again and transformed it into the novel it now is, basing her sense of New England culture and place on her ten years of living at The Mount, her home in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Ammons is professor emerita at Tufts University. She was previously the Harriet B. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. ... Edith Wharton's ...
Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758/59 – April 17, 1840) [1] was an American novelist.. Her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton, was published anonymously in 1797. [2]