Wyndclyffe Castle, the home thought to have inspired the expression “keeping up with the Joneses,” is now a…
Someone has found a previously unknown, never-published Edith Wharton short story about French society on the home…
In this month's issue, Vogue has an entire fashion spread dedicated to Edith Wharton. Wharton, the first woman to…
Lapham's Quarterly has published an excerpt of erotica by Edith Wharton — and it's surprisingly racy. Check out the…
- Leighton Meester made the September cover of Harper's Bazaar, and inside the magazine printed digitally-altered…
Remember when Constance Billard puts on The Age of Innocence for its senior play? Is it mere coincidence that Edith…
Trustees of the Mount, Edith Wharton's Massachusetts estate, have restructured the site's finances to reduce its…
On Friday we posted a call to help us complete a list of 75 books every woman should read. We started you off with…
Was the death of Lily Bart, the heroine of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth a suicide or an accidental overdose? Literary pundits have been arguing the question since the novel debuted in 1905, but a letter written by Wharton and recently unearthed points to the suicide theory. "A month before Mirth installments… Read more

