Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

I've only read two books of hers yet, they are the most important ones.

Tho House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1921). The books were adapted into movies. First, starring Gillian Anderson (Scully from X-files) and the second, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder. I believe Wharton spoke through her characters, both male and female cause, growing up in a controlled society is what she was used to.

She is one of America's famous female writers and she wrote 40 books in 40 years. How cool is that?

She married late (for that time), at the age of 23 but, after her father's death, she found a suitable husband, 13 years older than her, with whom she shared many mutual interests. Her first work is The Decoration of Houses (1897), on design and architecture.

She was born in Newport, in New York and it is no wonder that she wrote about this society and its hypocritical tendencies of the late 19th century.

Interesting thing is she moved to village near Paris in 1920 and surprisingly, that's the place she wrote and published The Age of Innocence. I've watched this movie 2 weeks ago and, I loved it. The message would be that divorced people weren't accepted, that it's always a woman's fault and, that loves comes last.

Wharton won a Pulitzer Prize for this book.

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