The Touchstone

Edith Wharton, an American novelist, short story writer, and designer, was born on January 24, 1862, as Edith Newbold Jones into a wealthy New York family. Wharton was a literary pioneer, successfully making her name in a predominantly male-dominated literary world. Her work primarily explores the complexities and contradictions of the upper-class society to which she belonged. She was educated pr...