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Wharton

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Whar·ton  (hwôrtn, wôr-), Edith Newbold Jones 1862-1937.
American writer whose works include subtle satires on New York society, such as The House of Mirth (1905), and the short, tragic novel Ethan Frome (1911). She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for The Age of Innocence.
Wharton [ˈwɔːtən]
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(Biographies / Wharton, Edith (Newbold) (1862-1937) F, US, WRITING: novelist) Edith (Newbold). 1862-1937, US novelist; author of
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Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, Edith Wharton


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Wharton made extensive stylistic, punctuation, and spelling changes and revisions between the serial and book publication, and more than thirty subsequent changes were made after the second impression of the book edition had been run off.
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Sometimes Wharton would sit back with a laugh and say:
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
While I worked, Miss Wharton often came into the room and sat with me, and so did Mrs.
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