The series *The Buccaneers* follows five American heiresses as they seek husbands among the cash-poor English nobility, inspired by Edith Wharton’s experiences with the American Dollar Princesses of ...

Historical fact meets a playwright’s imagination in Anne Undeland’s 2021 play Wharton Between the Sheets, recounting author Edith Wharton’s Parisian love affair with a charming man-about-town.

The cast of the Gilded Age Edith Wharton series talk with Patrick Stoner. The cast of the Gilded Age Edith Wharton series talk with Patrick Stoner about bringing that late 19th century world of glamor ...

STOCKBRIDGE — Readings at Rockwell, a new literary series highlighting the power of the written word through dramatic readings, will feature the works of three iconic American authors: Shirley Jackson ...

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American poet, novelist and designer, and the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel “The Age of Innocence.” She grew up in the aristocracy of ...

In her introduction to “The House of Mirth” (1905), Edith Wharton explained that she was determined to expose New York high society in the late 1800s as a “hot-house of tradition and conventions.” ...