The Letters of Edith Wharton (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Edith Newbold Jones
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1874-1937
- Setting: The United States, Italy, France, England, and Africa
- Principal Characters: Edith Wharton, Bernard Berenson, Mary Berenson, Walter Berry, Edward L. Burlingame, William Crary Brownell, Charles Scribner, William Morton Fullerton, Henry James, Gaillard Lapsley, Sara (Sally) Norton, Edward Robbins Wharton (Teddy)
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Letters
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Friendship, Novelists, Death or dying, Creative process, World War I
- Locales: Africa, France, United States, England, Italy
Form and Content
As a healthy adult, Edith Wharton mailed approximately six letters per day. Still in existence are an estimated four thousand letters of a personal nature and approximately four thousand business letters. In The Letters of Edith Wharton, editors R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis include not quite four hundred. These were chosen as characteristic examples of the author’s letters, exemplifying her different styles, her personality, and her differing emotional states, and reflecting the stages of her important relationships.
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