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Edith Wharton
[Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 1862-1937]
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Stageplays, Other Media
"Dramatic License: Edith Wharton On Stage & Screen"
 | "Join Edith Wharton and a cast of famous stars on a journey thru the perils of adaptation" A multimedia presentation being offered at The Mount (included with paid admission) official webpage watch trailer [0:48] at Vimeo
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Edith Wharton's credits [1902-36] at Internet Broadway Database
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"The Shadow of A Doubt: A Three-Act Play" [written 1901, not produced; ms discovered 2016]
5/2017 article in The New Yorker: 'A Lost Edith Wharton Play Emerges From Scholarly Sleuthing'
 | Rediscovered in 2016 by Laura Rattray & Mary Chinery, and published in the May 2017 Edith Wharton Review (of Penn State University Press); the play was in rehearsal on Broadway in early 1901 under theatrical impresario Charles Frohman, and with Elsie de Wolfe in the leading role; for reasons not yet known, the production was abandoned
live reading/performance by Red Bull Theater [est. 2003] of New York City [date/location unknown] official website {down 10/2021} • Facebook homepage • Red Bull Theater YouTube channel [est. 2014] radio performance 28 Oct 2018 on B.B.C. Radio 3 - adapted for radio by Melissa Murray; directed by Emma Harding; starring Phoebe Fox, Paul Ready, Rosie Boore listen to free online [89:00] at B.B.C. website |
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"Man of Genius: A Two-Act Play" [1901] written by Edith Wharton
about an Englishman who was having an affair with his secretary; the play was rehearsed but was never produced
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"The Joy of Living (Es Lebe das Leben): A Play in Five Acts"
Broadway stageplay [Garden Theatre Oct-Nov 1902]
  | short-lived Broadway production {only 19 performances}; it was, however, a successful book Produced by Charles Frohman; German original by Hermann Sudermann, translated by Edith Wharton; directed by Mrs. Patrick Campbell; opening night cast included Charles Bryant, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Harry Dornton, Rose Dupre, J.H. Gilmour Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2011] for FREE! Kindle Edition from Good Press [12/2019] for $1.99 indep 9x6 pb [6/2020] for $3.99 Wentworth Press 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2019] for $23.95 |
1902 Scribner edition available as free online flip-book [9/2008 upload] at Internet Archive
1902 Scribner edition available as free online flip-book [9/2010 upload] at Internet Archive
1914 Scribner edition available as free online flip-book [9/2008 upload] at Internet Archive
1902 German edition available as free online flip-book [7/2009 upload] at Internet Archive
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"The House of Mirth" Broadway stageplay [Savoy Theatre Oct-Nov 1906]
bombed {only 14 performances}; produced by Charles Frohman; written by Edith Wharton & Clyde Fitch, based on the book by Edith Wharton; staged by Clyde Fitch
http://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-house-of-mirth-6275
"The Age of Innocence: A Play in Five Scenes" Broadway stageplay [Empire Theatre Nov 1928 to May 1929]
207 performances; produced by Gilbert Miller; written by Margaret Ayer Barnes, based on the novel by Edith Wharton; staged by Guthrie McClintic
Katharine Cornell played the role of Ellen Olenska; also staged 10/1929 at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Katharine Cornell in the cast
http://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-age-of-innocence-10792
"The Old Maid: A Play in Three Acts" Broadway stageplay [Empire Theatre Jan-Sep 1935]
305 performances; produced by Harry Moses; written by Zoë Akins, from the 1924 novella by Edith Wharton; staged by Guthrie McClintic
stageplay won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
http://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-old-maid-7923
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"Ethan Frome" Broadway stageplay [National Theatre Jan-May 1936]
120 performances; produced by Max Gordon; written by Owen Davis & Donald Davis, based on a previous dramatization by Lowell Barrington,
based on the novel by Edith Wharton; staged by Guthrie McClintic; actors included Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Tom Ewell
http://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/ethan-frome-12062
"Ethan Frome" was performed in May 1937 at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California;
Gilmor Brown was artistic director, Hale McKeen was director
"Ethan Frome" was performed during the 1977-78 season at the Trinity Repertory Company Theatre
in Providence, Rhode Island; Adrian Hall was director
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"The House of Mirth" [1975-76 season]
world premiere at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT; adapted by John Tillinger, starring Dorothy Lyman; Waris Hussein was director
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"Unearthly Visitants" stageplay [Brooklyn Oct 2021] 
 | A new 'devised play' based on four chilling short ghost stories written by Edith Wharton; adapted & directed by Kevin Ray; probes the confinement of social norms and the price that the living pay for ignoring the past; performed by permission of the Estate of Edith Wharton and the Watkins/Loomis Agency; fiscally sponsored project of the Brooklyn Arts Council [est. 1966]; three performances took place at Triskelion Arts [est. 2000], 106 Calyer Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
stageplay homepage • stageplay Facebook homepage "Making Unearthly Visitants" podcast/interview with Kevin Ray & Wharton scholar Margaret Toth on YouTube
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Kindle Editions
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 | "Works of Edith Wharton (31 Books)" for Kindle [2009]
Kindle Edition from H&H Books [10/2009] for 99¢ contains 31 books of fiction, non-fiction & poetry by Edith Wharton (with active table of contents): "Afterward", "The Age of Innocence", "Artemis To Actaeon and Other Verses", "Autres Temps...", "Bunner Sisters", "The Choice", "Coming Home", "Crucial Instances" [7 stories 1901], "The Custom of The Country", "The Descent of Man & Other Stories" [9 stories 1904], "The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton (2 volumes)", "Ethan Frome", "Fighting France", "The Fruit of The Tree", "The Glimpses of The Moon", "The Greater Inclination" [8 stories 1899], "The Hermit and The Wild Woman" [7 stories 1908], "The House of Mirth", "In Morocco", "Kerfol", "The Long Run", "Madame de Treymes", "The Reef", "Sanctuary", "Summer", "Tales of Men and Ghosts" [10 stories 1910], "The Touchstone", "The Triumph of Night", "The Valley of Decision", and "Xingu" [7 stories 1916] |
 | "The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton" for Kindle [61 stories 2011]
Kindle Edition from Digireads [10/2011] for $7.19 Digireads 9x6 pb [10/2011] for $24.99 contains 61 short stories: Early Uncollected Stories (5 stories 1891-96), "The Greater Inclination" [8 stories 1899], Early Uncollected Stories (3 stories 1900), "Crucial Instances" [7 stories 1901], "The Descent of Man" [9 stories 1904], Uncollected Stories (4 stories 1904-08), "The Hermit and The Wild Woman and Other Stories" [7 stories 1908], "Tales of Men and Ghosts" [10 stories 1910]), "Xingu" [7 stories 1916], and uncollected "Writing A War Story" (1919) |
 | "Delphi Collected Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)" [2011]
Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [10/2011] for $1.99 contains most of the public domain writings: eleven novels, four novellas, seven story collections, one stageplay, some poetry, and seven non-fiction books |
 | "Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Annotated)" [2014]]
8,778-page Kindle Edition from Pynch [11/2014] for $2.99 contains: 22 novels & novellas; 10 story collections and 11 uncollected stories; some poems; and nine works of non-fiction |
 | "The Collected Works of Edith Wharton" for Kindle [2015]
9,770-page Kindle Edition from PergamonMedia [4/2015] for $1.99 contains over 40 works, including uncommon "Short Stories For English Courses", "A Parody Outline of History" by Donald Ogden Stewart, "Poems of American Patriotism", and "The Decoration of Houses" with co-author credit to Ogden Codman |
 | "Edith Wharton: 14 Great Novels" for Kindle [2017]
3,272-page Kindle Edition from Page2Page [7/2017] for 99¢ contains 14 novels and novellas: "Fast and Loose" [1877], "The Touchstone" [1900], "The Valley of Decision" [1902], "Sanctuary" [1903], "The House of Mirth" [1905], "Madame de Treymes" [1907], "The Fruit of The Tree" [1907], "Ethan Frome" [1911], "The Reef" [1912], "The Custom of The Country" [1913], "Summer" [1917], "The Marne" [1918], Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Age of Innocence" [1920], and "The Glimpses of The Moon" [1922] |
 | "Edith Wharton: The Complete Works (Newly Updated)" for Kindle [2019]
9,682-page Kindle Edition from Knowledge House [6/2019] for $1.99 contains 25 novels & novellas, 11 story collections, some poems, nine books of non-fiction, and an index of the stories |
 | Edith Wharton: Complete Works" for Kindle [2020]
{file size 9,934KB} Kindle Edition from Bauer Classics [7/2020] for 99¢ contains 25 novels & novellas, 11 story collections, some poems - non-fiction works not included |
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"The Complete Works of Edith Wharton, Illustrated" for Kindle [2021]
10,181-page Kindle Edition from Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publng [10/2021] for $1.99 contains: 19 novels, 4 novellas, 12 story collections, one stageplay, some poetry, 9 non-fiction |
these amateur publishers got themselves lost or confused in creating these ebooks; valid Wharton 'Complete Works' ebooks are over 9,000 pages
"{mis-named} Complete Works of Edith Wharton: 33 Complete Works (Annotated)" [8/2016]
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Prize-Winning-Innocence-Sanctuary-Annotated-ebook/dp/B01L60IZG8/nordellbookst-20 4,741 pages for $2.99
"{mis-named} Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Annotated)" [7/2021]
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Edith-Wharton-Annotated-ebook/dp/B09BMCKXZ1/nordellbookst-20 3,699 pages for $3.99
"Edith Wharton: The {mis-named} Complete Works" [10/2021]
http://www.amazon.com/Edith-Wharton-Complete-Works-ebook/dp/B09KB32R9J/nordellbookst-20 1,411 pages for $3.99
"The {mis-named} Complete Works Edith Wharton" [11/2021]
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Edith-Wharton-ebook/dp/B09KZDQWL4/nordellbookst-20 2,547 pages for $4.99
"The {mis-named} Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence & The House of Mirth" [11/2021]
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Edith-Wharton-Innocence-ebook/dp/B09L2Z71NY/nordellbookst-20 872 pages for $3.99
"The {mis-named} Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth & The Custom of The Country" [11/2021]
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Edith-Wharton-Innocence-ebook/dp/B09L2S34Y8/nordellbookst-20 1,330 pages for $3.99
Works About Edith Wharton
 | "The Two Lives of Edith Wharton: The Woman and Her Work" [1965] by Grace Kellogg Appleton-Century hardcover [1965] out of print/used German-language? Appleton-Century hardcover [1965] out of print/used |
 | "Edith Wharton: A Woman In Her Time" [1971] by Louis Auchincloss Viking Press hardcover [1971] out of print/used |
 | "Edith Wharton: A Biography" [1975] by R.W.B. Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Bancroft Prize in American History Fromm Intl 9¼x6¼ pb [10/93] out of print/many used Harper & Row 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/75] out of print/many used |
 | "Edith Wharton (Modern Literature Monographs)" [1977] by Richard H. Lawson Ungar Publng pb [6/77] out of print/used Ungar Publng 8x4¾ hardcover [6/77] out of print/used |
"A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton" [Oxford 1977] by Cynthia Griffin Wolff ISBN 0-19-502117-7 + 1995 ISBN 0-201-40918-6
"Edith Wharton and the Art of Fiction" [Continuum Intl 1990] by Penelope Vita-Finzi
 | "Edith Wharton's Prisoners of Shame: A New Perspective On Her Neglected Fiction" [1990] by Lev Raphael Examines Wharton's work 'from a fresh angle', that of the affect theory of Dr. Silvan Tomkins Palgrave Macmillan 9¼x6 hardcover [10/91] out of print/used |
 | "Women Writers: Edith Wharton" [1991] by Katherine Joslin
Palgrave Macmillan pb [1/94] for $51.00 Palgrave Macmillan 7¼x4&34 pb [5/91] out of print/used Palgrave Macmillan hardcover [7/91] out of print/used |
"Women and Wealth: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, and Paul Bourget" [1992]
by Jackie Vickers - Journal of American Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2
 | "Edith Wharton: The Contemporary Reviews (American Critical Archives)" [1992] Edited by James W. Tuttleton, Kristin O. Lauer, Margaret P. Murray compilation of reviews for each of 44 of Wharton's books, 1897-1938 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [1/2010] for $58.95 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6 hardcover [9/92] |
 | "The Style's The Man: Reflections On Proust, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Vidal, and Others" [1994] by Louis Auchincloss Charles Scribner's Sons 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/94] out of print/many, many used Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover [9/94] out of print/used 18 insightful essays on literary style; topics/subjects include: Ivy Compton-Burnett, William Congreve, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Gaddis, Henry James, Walter Horatio Pater, Marcel Proust, Samuel Richardson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gore Vidal, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Marguerite Yourcenar, and others |
 | "Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life - An Illustrated Biography" [1994] by Eleanor Dwight Harry N. Abrams 10x6¾ pb [9/99] out of print/many used Harry N. Abrams 10½x8¾ hardcover [4/1994] for $25.12 Harry N. Abrams hardcover [4/1994] out of print/used |
 | "No Gifts From Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton" [1994] by Shari Benstock "This is first-rate literary biography . . . that challenges and complements R.W.B. Lewis's 1975 biography." Kindle Edition from Univ Texas Press [6/2010] for $22.49 {sic} Univ Texas Press 9¼x6 pb [3/2004] for $41.88 Univ Texas Press 7¾x5 pb [1995] out of print/used Scribner 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/94] out of print/used |
"The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James and Wharton [ Mar 31, 1995] by Nancy Bentley
http://www.amazon.com/Ethnography-Manners-Hawthorne-Cambridge-Literature/dp/0521039665/
"The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton [Jun 30, 1995] by Millicent Bell
http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Wharton-Companions-Literature-ebook/dp/B00A4A69OC
http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Wharton-Cambridge-Companions-Literature/dp/0521485134/
http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Wharton-Companions-Literature/dp/0521453585/
"Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit [July 1995] by Carol J. Singley
http://www.amazon.com/Edith-Wharton-Cambridge-American-Literature/dp/052164612X/
http://www.amazon.com/Edith-Wharton-Cambridge-American-Literature/dp/0521472350/
 | "The Gilded Age: Edith Wharton and Her Contemporaries" [1996] by Eleanor Dwight excerpts of Edith Wharton, Henry James, Mark Twain & others; paintings by John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Maurice Brazil Prendergast & others; tales of fascinating personalities such as J.P. Morgan, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Mrs. Caroline Schermerhorn Astor Universe 7½x7½ hardcover [4/96] out of print/used |
 | "The Edith Wharton Murders: A Nick Hoffman Mystery" [1997] by Lev Raphael Two intensely rival Wharton societies meet for a joint conference on campus in Michigan; the harried conference organizer is desperate for tenure, and the pressure escalates when an attendee is murdered Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [6/2011] for $5.99 Stonewall Inn Mysteries 8¼x5½ pb [12/98] out of print/many used St. Martin's Press 8½x5½ hardcover [9/97] out of print/many used |
"Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York" [Routledge 1998] by Maureen E. Montgomery ISBN 0-415-90566-4
"Edith Wharton's French Riviera" [Flammarion/Rizzoli 2002] by Collas, Philippe & Eric VilledaryISBN 2-84110-161-4
 | "The Fool's Journey: A Romance" [2002 novel] by Lynn C. Miller of Albuquerque, New Mexico potboiler romance about a Wharton scholar in personal & career crisis Winedale Publng 9x6 pb [9/2002] for $16.00 |
 | "Edith Wharton and The Politics of Race" [2004] by Jennie A. Kassanoff author argues for a more accurate picture of Wharton's appreciation of American culture and democracy by documenting Wharton's spirited participation in Turn of The Century discourses ranging from euthanasia and tourism to pragmatism and Native Americans Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/2008] for $33.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2004] for $98.95 {sic} |
 | "Edith Wharton" biography [2007] by Oxford Professor Emeritus Dame Hermione Lee considered the definitive modern biography of one of America's most famous women of letters Kindle Edition from Vintage [12/2008] for $18.99 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [4/2008] for $19.77 Vintage 7¾x5 pb [2/2008] out of print/used Chatto & Windus/Knopf 9½x6½ deckle-edge hardcover [4/2007] out of print/many, many used "Hermione Lee lecture on Edith Wharton" [March 2012] sponsored by The New York Society Library at Temple Israel in NYC not listed at IMDb • watch full lecture [4/2012 upload; 53:24] online at YouTube |
"Edith Wharton" [2007] by Mary Virginia Davis - Magills Survey of American Literature. Salem Press
 | "The Cambridge Introduction To Edith Wharton" [2009] by Pamela Knights Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/2009] for $27.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [4/2009] for $32.94 |
 | "The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton: A Biography" [ages 12 & up; 2010] by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge Clarion Books 9¼x7 hardcover [8/2010] for $15.60 |
"What Edith Knew: Freeing Wharton from the Master's Shadow" [Harper's Magazine, 9 December 2011] by Elizabeth Lowry
"Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton At Home." [Peter Lang 2011] by Elif S.Armbruster (ISBN 978-1433112492)
"Nobody Likes Edith Wharton" article by Edith Minkel [Feb 2012] in The New Yorker Magazine
"A Critic At Large: A Rooting Interest" article by Jonathan Franzen [13–20 Feb 2012] in The New Yorker Magazine
 | "The Age of Desire: A Novel" [2012] by Jennie Fields A fictional version of Wharton's life, albeit using many excerpts from her letters and fiction; the angle here is that Wharton's marriage was unhappy and she had a longtime liaison with a dashing young journalist, to the disapproval of her former governess, now her private secretary Kindle Edition from Viking Adult [8/2012] for $14.99 Pamela Dorman Books 9x6¼ hardcover [8/2012] for $11.97 |
"The War That Used Up Words: American Writers and the First World War" [Yale Univ Press 2015] by Hazel Hutchinson
"Critical Insights: Edith Wharton" [Salem Press 2018] edited by Myrto Drizou
 | "Edith Wharton In France" [2018] by Claudine Lesage 'a smooth English translation of letters and other works, a kind of epistolary biography that reveals an extraordinary woman seeking and finding independence in the elite French social world that is both familiar and strange' Kindle Edition from Prospecta Press [10/2018] for $9.99 Prospecta Press 9¼x6¾ hardcover [10/2018] for $25.03 |
 | "Wharton, Hemingway, and The Advent of Modernism" [2019] Edited by Lisa Tyler contains Foreword by Laura Rattray, Critical Introduction by editor Tyler, and twelve essays by Parley Ann Boswell, Dustin Faulstick, Anna Green, Peter Hays, Jennifer Haytock, Caroline Hellman, Ellen Andrews Knodt, Cecilia Macheski, Milena Radeva, Sirpa Salenius, editor Tyler, Linda Wagner-Martin The overall purpose here is to reveal the two writers’ overlapping contexts, interests, and aesthetic techniques, thus opening new avenues for understanding the pivotal aesthetic and cultural movements central to the development of American literary modernism. Kindle Edition from L.S.U. Press [4/2019] for $22.89 {sic} L.S.U. Press 9x6 hardcover [4/2019] for $24.09 |
 | "The New Edith Wharton Studies (Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions Series)" [2019] Edited by Jennifer Haytock (SUNY at Brockport) & Laura Rattray (University of Glasgow) 14 essays, bibliography, index; the essays address themes that have previously been missed or under-developed, examining areas where previous scholarship ignores key contemporary issues Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [12/2019] for $80.00 {sic} Cambridge Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2020] for $87.00 |
 | "Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction" [2020] by Dr. Laura Rattray "So much more than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsidered in this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travel writer, an innovative & subversive critic, a hugely influential design writer, and an author who overturned the conventions of autobio-graphical form." Kindle Edition from Palgrave Macmillan [8/2020] for $32.96 {sic} Palgrave Macmillan 8½x6 hardcover [8/2020] for $34.65 "Edith Wharton and Genre" podcast/lecture with slides [March 2021] hosted by Ken Redpath for the National Library of Scotland DVD/Blu-ray not available • watch full 3/2021 episode [47:45] online at YouTube |
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"Ethan Frome" radio adaptation [NBC Radio Sept 1953] hour-long episode of the "Best Plays" radio show [1952-53] on N.B.C. Radio
Presented by critic John Chapman, directed by Edward King, written by Owen & Donald Davis, starring Geraldine Page, Carl Weber & Evelyn Vardin
listen at Internet Archive •
listen [59:35] at Old Time Radio Downloads
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"Great Lives, Series 5: Edith Wharton" [BBC Radio4 May 2004]
Publisher Kimberly Fortier discusses American novelist Edith Wharton with Prof. Janet Beer and Humphrey Carpenter listen to audio recording [30 minutes] online at BBC Radio website "Great Lives, Series 28: Edith Wharton" [BBC Radio4 Sept 2012] American social critic & author Naomi Wolf discusses American novelist Edith Wharton with Prof. Janet Beer and Matthew Parris listen to audio recording [30 minutes] online at BBC Radio website |
"Afterward: A Classic Ghost Story" [1910] by Edith Wharton
narrated by Jennifer Gill for HorrorBabble
listen to 6/2017 audio recording [1:21:08] online at YouTube
 | "Edith Wharton" episode [B.B.C. Radio4 Oct 2018] of the weekly "In Our Time" programme presented by Melvyn Bragg; featuring biographer Dame Hermione Lee, former President of Wolfson College, Oxford; Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Leeds; and Laura Rattray, Reader in North American Literature at the University of Glasgow audio CD not available • bare episode credits at IMDb • series credits at IMDb listen to audio recording [49 minutes] online at B.B.C. Radio4 |
"Bewitched: A Classic Ghost Story" [1926] by Edith Wharton
narrated by Tony Walker
listen to 9/2019 audio recording [52:00] online at YouTube
 | "The Edith Wharton B.B.C. Radio Drama Collection" audio CD set [B.B.C. Studios May 2020]
BBC Audio/Audible audio CD set [5/2020] multiple disks for $30.54 full-cast dramatisations of six novels, one stageplay, one story, also two radio shows: "The House of Mirth" [1905] starring Carole Mowlam, Keith Alexander, Alexander John; "Madame de Treymes" [1907] starring Anna Massey, Philip Voss, Valerie Sarruf; "Ethan Frome" [1911] starring Dominic Mafham, Jessica Raine, Laurel Lefkow; "The Reef" [1912] starring Jodhi May, Sian Thomas, Ben Miles; "The Custom of the Country" [1913] starring Rebecca Night, Barbara Barnes, Lorelei King, Tom Hollander; "The Age of Innocence" [1920] starring Eleanor Bron, Ryan McCluskey, Susan Lynch; stageplay "The Shadow of A Doubt", the recently-discov-ered play by Wharton, starring Phoebe Fox, Francesca Annis, Don Gilet; Joseph Ayre reads her short story "The Dilettante" (1903); "Great Lives" radio episode [Sept 2012], in which American social critic & author Naomi Wolf discusses the life and work of Edith Wharton with Janet Beer & Matthew Parris; and an episode of "In Our Time" radio episode [Oct 2018], in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels |
"Snowblind" [San Francisco Ballet 2018]
"Ethan Frome" was adapted by Cathy Marston as a one-act ballet with Ulrik Birkkjaer as Ethan, Sarah Van Patten as Zeena, and Mathilde Froustey as Mattie
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"Portrait of Edith Wharton" one-person performance [1990s]
a two-hour monologue based on Wharton's life and writings, devised and performed by American actress Irene Worth [1916-2002]
using no props, costumes or sets, she created characters entirely through vocal means
"Edith Wharton: Looking Back" TV movie [WNET-TV/P.B.S. Nov 1981]
Season 9, episode 5 of the "Great Performances" TV series [since 1971] /tt0159876/
 | hour-long loose adaptation of two biographies of Edith Wharton: "A Backward Glance", her own 1934 autobiography and the 1975 biography by R.W.B. Lewis • Directed by Kirk Browning; written by Steve Lawson; starring Kathleen Widdoes {as Edith Wharton}, Stephen Collins {as Morton Fullerton}, John Cullum {as Walter Barry}, John McMartin {as Teddy Wharton}, Richard Woods {as Henry James} VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • episode credits at IMDb |
"A Lady Does Not Write: Edith Wharton's American Life" TV documentary [1995]
episode of the "Bookmark" TV series [BBC2-TV 1983-99] /tt0267154/
 | Produced by Ann Hummel; directed by Tim Neil; narrated by Ian Holm; readings by Irene Worth, Liza Ross, Paul Birchard; featuring dramatised extracts from "The Buccaneers" [BBC-TV/WGBH Boston 1995], readings from "The Fullness of Life", "The Buccaneers", "The Line of Least Resistance", "A Backward Glance", "The Dilettante", "Expiation", "The Greater Inclination", "The Age of Innocence", "The House of Mirth", "Ethan Frome", "The Reckoning", and "The Fullness of Life"; featured contributors include: author/biographer Louis Auchincloss, Stephanie Copeland {restoration director, The Mount}, writer Marilyn French, biographer R.W.B. Lewis, etiquette consultant Lily Lodge, writer Michael Pye, publisher Charles Scribner III, fashion historian Valerie Steele, Prof. Candace Waid {Yale University}
not listed at IMDb • watch full movie [1/2021 upload; 48:03] online at YouTube |
"Edith Wharton: The Sense of Harmony" documentary film [IndiePix Films 1999]
 | "A portrait of a literary genius, cosmopolitan, and activist, whose vivid portrayal of society still resonates today" 57-minute film directed by Elizabeth Lennard, featuring distinguished biographers Louis Auchincloss, R.W.B. Lewis, and Eleanor Dwight, as well as writer Colin Clark and historian Sir Steven Runciman not listed at IMDb • IndiePix color DVD [4/2015] for $16.99 Amazon Instant Video [2016] SD rental $2.99, SD purchase $7.99 watch 5/2015 official trailer [2:01] online at YouTube watch short excerpt [5/2015 upload; 1:45] online at YouTube watch official trailer [1/2020 upload; 2:01] online at Vimeo |
Family & Friends & Scholars
Edith Newbold Jones was born in January 1862 at home in New York City; she began writing as a child, her first published work was at age 15 in 1877,
first published short story in 1891, first published novel in 1902; she was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Novel, for "The Age of Innocence" [1920];
she moved to France in 1913, continued writing, and died there at age 75 in August 1937.
father George Frederic Jones [1821-1882] - died of a stroke in Cannes, France
mother Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones [1824-1901] - widowed 1882, moved to Paris in 1885 and lived there until her death
brother Frederic Rhinelander Jones [1846-?]
brother Henry Edward Jones [1850-?]
courtship with Henry Leyden Stevens [] - began 1880, engaged 8/1882, cancelled 1883?
husband Edward Robbins 'Teddy' Wharton [1850-1928] - married 4/1885, institutionalized 1908, divorced 1913
affair with journalist William Morton Fullerton [1865-1952] - together 1908-1914
entry at Wikipedia
 | "Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton" [2001] by Marion Mainwaring Univ Press of New England hardcover [3/2001] for $25.53 |
intimate friend Léon Bélugou [1865-1934]
Léon Bélugou Correspondence, 1908-1934 is at Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Collection of American Literature
http://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:4038133
distant cousin, childhood friend, and later companion in France Walter Van Rensselaer Berry [1859-1927] - lived in Paris 1914-27
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Van_Rensselaer_Berry
Boston architect Ogden Codman, Jr. [1863-1951]
collaborated on interior of the NYC townhouse and on The Mount
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Codman_Jr.
author Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
After he drove an ambulance in Italy in The Great War, Ernest got married in America and he and first wife Hadley then lived in Paris during the Jazz Age 1920s; Ernest and Edith
certainly crossed paths, but they were not friends; Ernest spoke highly of Edith's books, but Edith found the Americans of the Paris cafés to be objectionable - and said so.
friend art critic Bernard Berenson [1865-1959]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Berenson
friend in France during 1930s Louis Bromfield [1896-1956] - they bonded around gardening
friends French novelist Paul Charles Joseph Bourget [1852-1935] and his wife Minnie Bourget
he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times
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entry at Wikipedia
friend art historian Baron/Lord Kenneth Clark [1903-83]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clark
friend French author & artist Jean Cocteau [1889-1963]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau
friend Nobel-laureate French author André Gide [1869-1951]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide
friend American-British author Henry James [1843-1916]
he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James
friend author Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951]
friend Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919]
Scholars
Wharton & Joseph Conrad scholar Claudine Holuigue Lesage, PhD [1943-2013]
In 1989, while researching Conrad at the library of the Côte d’Azur town of Hyères, Lesage discovered an unsigned manuscript that appeared to be an early work of Edith Wharton; after determining that it was an unpublished account of Wharton’s 1888 Mediterranean cruise aboard the private yacht The Vanadis, she published the journal as "The Cruise of The Vanadis". Lesage translated several Wharton short stories, edited "Lettres a L'Ami Francais" [2001], and authored "Edith Wharton en France" [2011]. Dr. Lesage died in 2013 before she could publish her final manuscript, a work on Wharton’s life in France intended for an American audience.
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Wharton scholar Marion Mainwaring [1922-2015]
assisted R.W.B. Lewis in researching his Pulitzer-winning 1975 Wharton biography; completed Wharton's unfinished 1938 novel "The Buccaneers" in 1993
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Wharton & Fitzgerald scholar Dr. Laura Rattray
previously Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Hull in Yorkshire, England
Reader in (post 1900) North American Literature at the University of Glasgow [hired 2013]
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Wharton scholar Lisa Tyler, professor of English at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio
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Residences
1862-82: Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy family at home at a four-story, brownstone mansion at 14 W. 23rd Street, New York City 
1882-85: her widowed mother, Lucretia Jones, lived at 28 West 25th Street, New York City {building replaced in 1911}
1885-93: married and moved to family-owned Pen Craig Cottage [built circa 1865], 100 Harrison Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island
1893-97: purchased Land's End on the other side of Newport for $80,000 and moved there
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1897-1902: Edith & Teddy purchased a New York City townhouse at 882-884 Park Avenue
1900: Teddy paid a hefty $36,000 for a nearby carriage house [built 1895] at 111 East 77th Street in NYC {still standing}
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The Mount [built 1902, moved away 1911, still standing]
Edith Wharton’s country place in the Berkshires - in Lenox, Massachusetts
house and gardens designed and built by Wharton & Boston architect James Cogden, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mount_(Lenox,_Massachusetts)
 | "Edith Wharton's Home, The Mount" [P.B.S. Nov 2009]
episode of "Moment of Luxury with William Stubbs" TV series [2008-2009] exploring Edith Wharton's custom-built estate • Exec producer, writer & director Lawrence Scott; host William Stubbs DVD/Blu-ray not available • episode credits at IMDb • series credits at IMDb watch full episode [2/2015 upload; 27:04] online at YouTube |
 | "Edith Wharton At Home: Life At The Mount" [2012] by Richard Guy Wilson, Photographs by John Arthur, Foreword by Pauline C. Metcalf "... one can see the influence of Wharton’s inimitable spirit in its architecture and design, just as one can sense the Mount’s impact on the extraordinary life of Edith Wharton herself" The Monacelli Press 10¼x8¼ hardcover [9/2012] for $45.00 The Monacelli Press 10¼x8¼ hardcover [9/2012] for $55.84 |
 | "Edith Wharton's Lenox (Massachusetts)" [2017] by Cornelia Brooke Gilder Edith and Teddy planned and built a defiantly classical villa; as a hostess, designer, gardener, and writer, Wharton set high standards that delighted many, including Ambassador Joseph Choate and sculptor Daniel Chester French; but her perceptive and sometimes indiscreet pen also alienated potent local figures like Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and Georgiana Welles Sargent Kindle Edition from The History Press [7/2017] for $11.99 The History Press 9x6 pb [7/2017] for $18.99 The History Press 9x6 hardcover [7/2017] for $26.52 |
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before taking the apartment in Paris, and sometimes after, Wharton chose the Hôtel de Crillon [built 1758, open 1909] 
on the Place de la Concorde in Paris as a temporary base
1910-20: Edith had an apartment in Paris since 1910; when her marriage deteriorated in 1913, she moved permanently to France, to the apartment
at 53 Rue de Varenne, Paris where she lived for the 4½ years of The Great War, working tirelessly in charitable efforts for refugees
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1919-37: seeking the peace and quiet of the countryside, Wharton settled in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt (10 miles/16 km north of Paris), buying an 18th-century
house on seven acres of land and naming it Le Pavillon Colombe; she lived there in Summer and Autumn for the rest of her life and spent Winter and Spring
on the French Riviera at Hyères, Côte d'Azur.
1927-37: purchased Castel Sainte-Claire du Vieux Chateau [built 1820] for her Winter and Spring visits to Hyères, Côte d'Azur on the French Riviera; 
she renamed it Sainte-Claire du Château; the city purchased the property in 1955. Wharton's improvements to the garden are retained, and the park
is listed on the Ministry of Culture's list of Remarkable Gardens of France.
 | "Edith Wharton: A House Full of Rooms - Architecture, Interiors, Gardens" [1996] by Theresa Craig, Special Photographs by John Bessler A fascinating volume that unites Wharton's personal history with discussion of her design theory, of the elaborate settings she created in her fiction, and of the design of her own residences, including exteriors, interiors, and gardens; this extraordinary mix of Wharton's own homes, the environments she created in her novels & stories, and her design theories enhances an understanding of her contributions to interior design, to literature, and to XXth Century American design The Monacelli Press 11¼x9¼ hardcover [10/1996] for $34.96 |
L i n k s
Edith Wharton Society [est. 1983]
Edith Wharton entry at Wikipedia
search books for Edith Wharton {100 results} at Amazon
browse books & Kindle {170 results} at the Edith Wharton Store at Amazon
Edith Wharton's credits [1902-36] at Internet Broadway Database
Edith Wharton credits [since 1918] at Internet Movie Database
browse DVDs of Edith Wharton works at Amazon
D. Campbell's Edith Wharton Chronology {last update 5/2018}
blog article 'A Day In Paris with Edith Wharton' (9/2012)
here on the Edith Wharton [1862-1937] Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
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