Edith Wharton

Full programme for the Edith Wharton Summit, June 4-6, now available 😊 edithwharton.org/calendar/sum...

The Edith Wharton International Society seeks panels for a roundtable on “Wharton in Context” for the MLA Convention in Los Angeles, January 7-10, 2027. We welcome submissions on Wharton’s work in the context of other disciplines, figures from her period, greater movements in history and literary and cultural trends, and Wharton in relation to other writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from a broad range of theoretical perspectives including transmedial approaches. Proposals for presentations no longer than fifteen minutes should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a 200- to 400-word abstract in the body of an email to Arielle Zibrak at azibrak@uwyo.edu As this is an MLA panel, all MLA program participants must be members of the Modern Language Association by April 1, 2026. Become part of the MLA and join here: https://www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership

Come talk about me at the MLA! It's a guaranteed session.

Sandi’s Great Riviera Rail Trip review – Toksvig’s wonder-filled travelogue is a bibliophile’s fantasy The QI presenter’s visit to the French south coast sees her boggling with delight at tales of writers’ past visits, and marvelling at the homes of authors. At points it feels like a literary tour by s...

This person from a baking show on television went to my house.

The Condo of Mirth

Such a pleasure to present both for the Hemingway Society and the @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social at this year's ALA conference - this was also my last conference as a PhD, but cheers to hopefully many more 🎓

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Edith Wharton Summit at The Mount next June! Please help us spread the word. Submissions deadline: 1 October

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Edith Wharton Review The Edith Wharton Review is a peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed,scholarly journal publishing scholarship on Edith Wharton, Wharton in the text of other authors, and Wharton in relation to other writers of th...

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CFP: special issue of the Edith Wharton Review - Edith Wharton and Popular Culture
UPDATE: due date EXTENDED to September 26, 2025
Due date for completed essays is September 10, 2025 Submissions of (approximately 20-30 pages; 6000-10000 words) can be uploaded to link in comment.

CFP: The Edith Wharton Summit at The Mount 4-6 June 2026 (deadline for proposals: 1 October 2025) We are excited to announce the first major, in-person international gathering of Edith Wharton researchers in a decade!  Please join us for a “summit” at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home in Len…

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CFP: special issue of the Edith Wharton Review – Edith Wharton and Popular Culture (Due September 10, 2025) CFP:  special issue of the Edith Wharton Review – Edith Wharton and Popular Culture Due date for completed essays is September 10, 2025 Following the highly successful panels at ALA 2025…

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CFP: Special issue of Edith Wharton Review

12-E
‘It Girl’ to 'Girl's Girl’" Elif S. Armbruster
“The Comeback of The Glimpses of the Moon,” Laetitia Nebot-Deneuville
"Anesthetic Femininity and the ‘Unlikeable’ Female Character’” Leila Stegemoeller
“The Age of Influence: Edith Wharton’s Stories and Instagram Stories,” H. J. E. Champion

11-E:
“Edith Wharton’s Ordinary Vices,” Nir Evron
“Democratic Social Reform through Literary Realism in Edith Wharton’s Bunner Sisters,” Elizabeth Youngman
“‘The Dissolution of the Ancestral Order’: Wharton, Lippmann, and Democracy,” @emilycoit.bsky.social
Response from @zibrak.bsky.social

Edith Wharton Society at Double-Header at ALA in Boston
Friday, May 23, 2025
1:00 pm – 2:20 pm Session 11-E Edith Wharton and Democracy *and*
2:30 pm – 3:50 pm Session 12-E Edith Wharton and Popular Culture

Landscape Architecture of Beatrix Farrand Presentation at Seymour Library SEYMOUR — The Seymour Public Library welcomes Connecticut Historian John Cilio for a free, in-person presentation titled ”Beatrix Farrand – Aspirations That Transcend Time” at the Seymour Public Libra...

For my fans in Connecticut, a chance to learn about my niece-the landscape architect Beatrix Farrand - from Connecticut Historian John Cilio.
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And still no taste.

A wall of American authors, this photo includes Edith Wharton, Ida B. Wells, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sophia Alice Callahan, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

A separate wall with quotes from authors. John F. Kennedy "Inaugural Address," 1961 Maya Angelou "Phenomenal Woman," 1978 Toshio Mori "Akira Yano," 1949 Short Story Richard Pryor ….Is It Something I Said? 1975 Comedy Speech "The Gift of the Magi," 1905 Octavia E. Butler Kindred, 1979 Historical Fantasy H. L. Mencken The American Language, 1919 Linguistics

Table of typewriters including an Underwood and an Olympia

Banners for Chicago writers, including Benny Bearskin, Simon Pokagon, and Roger Ebert.

The American Writers Museum is a great little excursion in Chicago. Check it out if you’re around there.

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Thanks, but I prefer dogs.

Netflix to Adapt 'The Age of Innocence' as Limited Series Netflix has announced a new limited series adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence.

It's high time for a new Age of Innocence adaptation! Good news: Netflix just bought one.

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2025 is an excellent year for Wharton scholarship, if nothing else. We have upcoming panels at:
ALA in Boston May 21-24
SSAWW in Philadelphia Nov 6-9
and in 2026 . . . MLA in Toronto Jan 8-11

stay tuned for more details!

#academicsky #ssaww #mla #ala #mla2026 #ssaww2025

Thank you!

Screenshot of a pdf with text and a sepia-toned photo of a woman (Edith Wharton) c. 1900 wearing a fancy dress and fur muff

I wrote about the history of Wharton film adaptations (and why we haven’t had a decent one of those in 25 years!) for Film Quarterly

A photo of a book stack surrounded by moss and vines. The book is burgundy and titled 'Bewitched: The Ghostly Tales of Edith Wharton'

Some more exciting news from us! Let the haunting begin... 😱

Bewitched: The Ghostly Tales of Edith Wharton is here!

This beautiful collection features Wharton’s spine-chilling classics and rarely told tales.

Grab your copy in-store or online today⬇️
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(And the Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 👻)

Some things are best mended by a break. - Edith Wharton

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#MusicChallenge

Eva Cassidy - Time Is A Healer

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. . . a good part of his world of wonder had shrunk to a village peep-show. And the things which had kept their stimulating power—distant journeys, the enjoyment of art, the contact with new scenes and strange societies—were becoming less and less attainable. (16)

Edith Wharton

The Gilded Age Never Ended Plutocrats, anarchists, and what Henry James grasped about the romance of revolution.

How Henry James can help us make sense of the Gilded Age long gone—and the one now getting stripped of its shine.

We’re now in the Second Gilded Age. As in the first, America’s wealth is in the hands of a few, conspicuous consumption exists alongside homelessness and hunger, monopolies crush competition, money corrupts politics, and working people are abused and exploited. The good news? Just like back then, we can fix it. From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

The question today is the same as it was during the first Gilded Age: Will we fight for an economy and a democracy that works for all rather than a wealthy few?

"Gilded Age for me, but not for thee," is the pasty white guy's mantra.