The biography is something like a Wharton novel: Wharton emerges as a compelling character and the last two and a half decades of her life emerge as a compelling time.
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CONNECTIONS: Elm Court and Wharton’s ‘The House of Mirth’
Amy Bend and her dire economic and social circumstances were the model for Edith Wharton’s Lily Bart in “The House of Mirth,” published in 1905.
CONNECTIONS: Berkshire Robber Barons Part II: All that glitters is not gold
While she built the Mount in Lenox, Edith Wharton was still an occasional houseguest in Newport, a familiar stomping ground that formed the backdrop for one or more of her novels.