Edith Wharton – Interesting Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Edith Wharton’s ‘The Moving Finger’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

‘The Moving Finger’ is a 1901 short story by the American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937). The story is about an artist who paints a portrait of a friend’s wife; when the wife dies, the husband asks the artist to alter the portrait so it reflects how his wife would look as an older woman, if she had lived.

A Very Short Biography of Edith Wharton

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

In his Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives, John Sutherland calls Edith Wharton’s life ‘fascinating’. It certainly is. The novelist best-known for The Age of Innocence led an interesting life, and in this very short biography we aim to cover the most curious aspects of Edith Wharton’s life and work.

Edith Wharton: Seven Facts Outside Fiction

By Viola van de Sandt Edith Wharton’s most famous novels – among them The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), and The Age of Innocence (1920) – have earned her a steadfast place within the modern-day canon of American literature. Yet some of the most interesting and provocative instances of her writing are also … Read more