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Edith Wharton, Writers and their Work
, Northcote House Publishers, 2002.
    MILLICENT BELL , ed.,
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton
, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
    ALFRED BENDIXEN and ANNETTE ZILVERSMIT ,
Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays
, Garland, 1992.
    NANCY BENTLEY ,
The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton
, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
    CLARE COLQUITT , SUSAN GOODMAN and CANDACE WAID , eds,
A Forward Glance: New Essays on Edith Wharton
, University of Delaware Press, 1999.
    JUDITH FRYER ,
Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
, University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
    KATHERINE JOSLIN and ALAN PRICE , eds,
Wretched Exotic: Essays on Edith Wharton in Europe
, Peter Lang, 1993.
    MAUREEN E. MONTGOMERY ,
Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton’s New York
, Routledge, 1998.
    BLAKE NEVIUS ,
Edith Wharton: A Study of her Fiction
, University of California Press, 1953.
    JULIE OLINE - AMMENTROP ,
Edith Wharton’s Writings from the Great War
, Florida University Press, 2004.
    CLAUDIA ROTH PIERPONT ,
Passionate Minds
, Random House, 2001.
    CLAIRE PRESTON ,
Edith Wharton’s Social Register
, Macmillan, 2000.
    ALAN PRICE ,
The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War
, Robert Hale, 1996.
    CAROL J . SINGLEY ,
Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit
, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
    CAROL J . SINGLEY , ed.,
A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton
, Oxford University Press, 2003.
    ADELINE R . TINTNER ,
Edith Wharton in Context
, University of Alabama Press, 1999.
    JAMES W . TUTTLETON , KRISTIN O . LAUER and MARGARET P . MURRAY , eds,
Edith Wharton: The Contemporary Reviews
, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
    CANDACE WAID ,
Edith Wharton’s Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing
, University of North Carolina, 1991.
    EDMUND WILSON , ‘Justice to Edith Wharton’,
The Wound and the Bow
, W. H. Allen & Co., 1941.
    BACKGROUND
    These are useful introductions to Wharton’s historical, cultural and intellectual context. Veblen provides an important parallel for her social analysis. Wharton’s short book on other writers’ fictional methods sheds a highly interesting light on her own work.
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS ,
The Vanderbilt Era
, Scribner’s, 1989.
    ERIC HOMBERGER ,
Mrs Astor’s New York
, Yale University Press, 2002.
    SCOTT MARSHALL et al.,
The Mount, Home of Edith Wharton
, Edith Wharton Restoration, 1997.
    LLOYD MORRIS ,
Incredible New York
, Syracuse, 1951.
    JOHN TOMSICH ,
A Genteel Endeavor: American Culture and Politics in the Gilded Age
, Stanford University Press, 1971.
    ALAN TRACHTENBERG ,
The Incorporation of America. Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
, Hill and Wang, 1982.
    THORSTEIN VEBLEN ,
The Theory of the Leisure Class
, Macmillan, 1899.
    EDITH WHARTON ,
The Writing of Fiction
, Scribner’s, 1925.

CHRONOLOGY
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DATE
AUTHOR’S LIFE
LITERARY CONTEXT
1861

George Eliot:
Silas Marner
.
Dickens:
Great Expectations
.
Rebecca Harding Davis:
Life in the Iron Mills
.
1862
Edith Newbold Jones born 24 January, in New York City.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Last Poems
.
Turgenev:
Fathers and Children
.
1863

Elizabeth Gaskell:
Sylvia’s Lovers
.
Longfellow:
Tales of a Wayside Inn
.
1864

Tennyson:
Enoch Arden
.
Trollope:
Can You Forgive Her?

Death of Hawthorne (b. 1804).
1865

Whitman:
Drum-Taps
.
Emerson:
English Traits
.
Dickens:
Our Mutual Friend
.
Gaskell:
Wives and Daughters
.
Lewis Carroll:
Alice’s

Adventures in Wonderland
.
1866
Family moves to Europe to conserve income in postwar depression. Next six years spent in Italy, Spain, Paris and Germany.
Dostoevsky:
Crime and Punishment
.
Gaskell:
Wives and Daughters
.
Eliot:
Felix Holt
.
Whittier:
Snow-Bound
.
1867

Arnold:
New Poems
.
Turgenev:
Smoke
.
Marx:
Das Kapital
(I).
1869

Mill:
The Subjection of Women
.
Browning:
The Ring and the Book
.
Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Old Town Folks
.
Flaubert:
L’Education Sentimentale
.
Tolstoy