The Poetry of Edith Wharton: Pulitzer prize winning author Wharton, known for novels such as Age Of Innocence and Ethan Frome, was a woman of many talents, an expert poet aswell, we explore a wonderful selection here.

Edith Newbold Jones was born in New York on 24th January 1862. Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in her 1921 Pulitzer Prize winning novel `The Age of Innocence'

Marriage to Edward Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years her senior in 1885 seemed to offer much and for some years they travelled extensively. After some years it was apparent that her husband suffered from ...