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Definition of Edith Wharton
1. Noun. United States novelist (1862-1937).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edith Wharton
Literary usage of Edith Wharton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 by Carl Van Doren (1922)
"Edith Wharton At the outset of the twentieth century O. Henry, in a mood of
reaction from current snobbism, discovered what he called the Four Million; ..."
2. Our Short Story Writers by Blanche Colton Williams (1920)
"CHAPTER XX Edith Wharton IN 1899 appeared a slender volume of two hundred and
twenty-nine pages, containing eight short stories under the inclusive title, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1915)
"THE NOVELS OF Edith Wharton . . . 182 The Greater Inclination (1899); A Gift from
the Grave (1900); Crucial Instances (1901); The Valley of Decision (1902); ..."
4. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"In the church relics of saints had been looted, in the sacristy fine old books
of prayer and music lay torn and soiled on the floor. Edith Wharton visited ..."
5. Composition for College Students by Joseph Morris Thomas, Frederick Alexander Manchester, Frank William Scott (1922)
"It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. —Edith
Wharton, The Age of Innocence,1 pp. 58-60. ..."
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