‘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 […]
The interesting life of a classic American novelist 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 […]
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 […]