Wharton mss. 1836-1975 (Bulk 1900-1937)

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Wharton mss. 1836-1975 (Bulk 1900-1937)

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Consists of the correspondence, diaries, and writings of novelist Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 1862-1937.

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Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)

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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Wharton was from birth a part of the wealthy New York society she depicted so vividly in her fiction. Through her father, George Frederic Jones, and her mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, she could claim descent from three families whose names were synonymous with wealth and position: the Stevenses, Rhinelanders, and Schermerhorns. Educated at home with tutors and exposed at an early age to the classics in her fath...