Announcement: The Edith Wharton Society Award for a Mid-Career Scholar has been renamed the Carole Shaffer-Koros Award for a Mid-Career Scholar. This award is named in honor of Carole Shaffer-Koros…

The Edith Wharton Review seeks a new editor. The journal is a peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed publication of the Edith Wharton Society, published twice yearly by Pennsylvania State University …

The Mount is the home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, MA - the Berkshires. This annual Summit presents new scholarship, experiences, and talks.

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...

The Mount is the home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, MA - the Berkshires. This annual Summit presents new scholarship, experiences, and talks.

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…

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…

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...

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

Plutocrats, anarchists, and what Henry James grasped about the romance of revolution.

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.

Experience a season of storytelling, art and community at The Mount in 2025, with author talks, performances, writing workshops, outdoor sculpture and family-friendly events celebrating Edith Wharton’...

Famous wit Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel gets a fresh staging from playwright Karen Zacarías at Arena Stage, one of the country's finest region

Corporate dominance over politics brought power, wealth — and backlash.

Here is the story of Edith Wharton’s childhood. Pussy Jones, as she was called, was born in the 1860s in a New York brownstone, the color of “cold chocolate sauce,” just off Fifth Avenue and Madiso…