My favorite high school teacher introduced The Age of Innocence by saying, “Maybe not for everyone. Probably not for any of you.” That sums up how most people feel. Even though Edith Wharton—who ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton was one of the most prolific American writers of the early 20th century, offering a glimpse ...

The 1911 murder of an author in New York City is the (real-life) event that drives Mariah Fredericks’s “The Wharton Plot.” Ms. Fredericks casts the American writer Edith Wharton as an amateur ...

In 1911, Edith Wharton found herself stuck at the Belmont Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Her life was stagnant. She was at the beginning of her divorce from Teddy Wharton. They were at the Belmont, ...

Novelist Edith Wharton wryly chronicled her Gilded Age, one ruled by male money, female modesty, and a sharply defined moral code. So the discovery of letters chronicling Wharton’s own steamy affair ...

Historical fact meets a playwright’s imagination in Anne Undeland’s 2021 play Wharton Between the Sheets, recounting author Edith Wharton’s Parisian love affair with a charming man-about-town.

Discover What’s Streaming On: Apple TV+‘s latest delightfully anachronistic period drama is a revolutionary new take on Edith Wharton’s final, unfinished novel, The Buccaneers. The story follows a ...

Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton’s final novel, “The Buccaneers,” concerns the adventures of five rich — but not the right sort of rich — young American women who, finding the doors of New York society ...

Although “The Buccaneers” comes with the literary pedigree of being based on Edith Wharton’s last, unfinished novel, the series so desperately wants to emulate “Bridgerton” that it almost makes your ...

Silly me. My house is a short drive from The Mount, Edith Wharton’s handsome spread in Lenox, and I visit often. But only now have I realized that this long-dead Bard of the Berkshires (several of her ...