Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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WHARTON, EDITH NEWBOLD JONES 1862 1937, American novelist, b. New York City, noted for her subtle, ironic...1899), Crucial Instances (1901), and The Descent of Man (1904); somewhat narrow in scope, they nevertheless...works. Much of her writing bears a resemblance to the fiction of Henry James, who was her close friend. However, the...The Valley of Decision (1902), a historical novel of 18th-century Italy; The Custom of the Country (1913); Hudson River...