Poetry of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton, according to Geoffrey Walton in his study of her in his 1971 essay, cited her as having written her first story at age 11, and even at this young age she has been dealing with the interactions of people in her social group. Her social circle being one primarily made up of an elite society, which as she aged slowly died off, became the focus of her stories. However, the problems that her characters experienced …

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