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Edith Wharton
June 28, 2022
Jennifer Wilson
How to Lose a Guy in the Gilded Age
Uncovering the resort where rich women sought the elusive right to divorce
May 2, 2016
Laura Reston
Edith Wharton was married in the historic Manhattan church that burned down last night.
November 13, 2015
Michelle Legro
Please let this newly-found Edith Wharton story be the rest of her unfinished incest erotica.
October 27, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Let's Bring Back Mourning Clothes
January 24, 2014
Edmund Wilson
On Her Birthday, In Praise of Edith Wharton's Acerbic Pen
April 3, 2012
David Thomson
A Cinematic Revival of Britain’s Most Popular Mid-Century Playwright
January 13, 2012
Stanley Kauffmann
TNR Film Classics: ‘The Age of Innocence’ (October 18, 1993)
November 9, 2011
Ruth Franklin
The Hermaphrodite
January 10, 2011
Hillary Kelly
Whitewashing
September 6, 2010
Elizabeth D. Samet
Edith Wharton’s War
September 6, 2010
Elizabeth D. Samet
Edith Wharton’s War
June 5, 2010
John Banville
The Idolatry of Light
January 30, 2008
Ruth Franklin
Scandale Française
December 6, 1948
Max Lerner
The Historian, the Novelist, and the Faith

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