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Edith Wharton

1862 (New York City) – 1937 (Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt)

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.

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Survival	453 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
A Meeting Life	427 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Jade	354 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Uses Life Nature	334 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
All Souls Life Love Melancholy Nature Religion	234 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Vesalius In Zante Death Humorous Life Love Nature Religion War	220 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Belgium	169 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
The Mortal Lease Death Family Life Love Melancholy Nature War	162 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Mona Lisa Life Melancholy	162 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
All Saints Life Love Melancholy Nature War	130 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
You and You Death Family Life Love Melancholy Nature War	125 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Patience Love Melancholy	120 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
The Old Pole Star Humorous Nature	118 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
An Autumn Sunset Death Life Melancholy Nature War	116 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
A Torchbearer Death Life Nature War	116 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Artemis To Actaeon Death Friendship Humorous Life Love Nature Religion	112 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Summer Afternoon (Bodiam Castle, Sussex) Death Friendship Humorous Life Love Nature Religion	111 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
The One Grief Melancholy Nature	110 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
A Hunting Song Love Nature	109 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Mould and Vase [GREEK POTTERY OF AREZZO.]	105 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Chartres Nature Religion	104 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Some Busy Hands… Humorous Melancholy Nature	99 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
Two Backgrounds Life Love Melancholy Nature	97 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
The Sonnet Life	96 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it
The Parting Day Humorous Melancholy Nature	85 Views added by anonymous 13 years ago	Rate it

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