"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. With The Buccaneers, new audiences may ...

My favorite high school teacher introduced The Age of Innocence by saying, “Maybe not for everyone. Probably not for any of you.” That sums up how most people feel. Even though Edith Wharton—who ...

Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer Craving More of ‘The Gilded Age’? Read These Books Next. If you’re reeling after ...

In the opening pages of “The Buccaneers,” Edith Wharton’s novel about American heiresses of the 1870s looking to marry Englishmen with titles, Mrs. St. George, the mother of the central character, ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. Wharton's first published novella was ...