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Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever"
BIOGRAPHY
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Biography
Here is a short biography from the Edith Wharton Society and a comprehensive timeline of her life and works.
This National Portrait Gallery album of Edith Wharton's world includes information about her life and works as well as photographs and paintings.
The Edith Wharton Pages at San Antonio College.
Works and Criticism
Here is a complete list of Edith Wharton's works with links to the full text of many of her novels from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.
Filmography of Edith Wharton's works.
The House of Mirth is the most accessible of Wharton's novels for the contemporary college student. Lily Bart fails in her attempt to climb the social ladder and ascend into the next social class. The Internet Public Library offers several critical articles from various perspectives about the novel.
The role of women, gender discrimination, and feminism have long been unresolved issues. This article about Wharton and feminism describes the issues in relation to her works.
Reviews of Wharton's works by her contemporaries.
Social Context
Wealthy young men and women went on the Grand Tour before they fully entered society. The Getty Museum offers information on the Tour from its inception in the eighteenth century well into the twentieth century. From the information page you can follow the link to the actual tour itself.
Marriage figures heavily in all of Edith Wharton's fiction. Marriage in the American Victoria era was confining for women, especially women from the upper classes.
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