Talk:Edith Wharton

GA Status

I'm working as part of the WP:WikiProject Women/Women in Green to see if we can make improvements to move Edith Wharton up to GA status. Auldhouse (talk) 18:03, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

There are a number of sources repeated, so I'll be switching the references to Harvard Ref. Auldhouse (talk) 17:49, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Playwright

I have been listening to Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 on October 4 2018 on Edith Wharton. One of the speakers on said that Edith Wharton had written plays before writing her first novel, so should the opening of this article add that she was a playwright? Vorbee (talk) 08:15, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

You are correct Vorbee. I'm looking at a list of her works and she wrote three. I'll add that. Auldhouse (talk) 16:09, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

There is a Wharton play on BBC Radio 3 at the moment. The Shadow of a Doubt. According to the introduction, someone found references to it in the New York Times from 1901 and was able to track down the manuscript - complete. It was going into production in 1901 but abandoned, possibly because of its controversial subject matter. This is its first production

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000xfl

2A00:23C6:1683:4D01:8025:4373:D2C0:7014 (talk) 19:57, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Art history?

I can't see how she qualifies for the list of 'Women in the Art History field'. Valetude (talk) 00:34, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Land's End

There appears to be a conflict about when Wharton bought the property named "Land's End".

In the first paragraph under '1880s-1900s' it reads "In 1893, they bought a house named Land's End, on the other side of Newport, for $80,000..."

But in the third paragraph under 'Travels and Life Abroad' it says "In 1897, Edith Wharton purchased Land's End in Newport, Rhode Island[...]Wharton agreed to pay $80,000 for the property, and spent thousands more to alter the home's facade..." 72.195.208.146 (talk) 22:17, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

"Her mother forbade her to read novels"

Evidently that was the language used at the time, but note that it is misleading now: as described she was permitted to and did read Daniel Defoe, Victor Hugo, Thomas Moore, John Ruskin, and Washington Irving. So the restriction was on "popular" or "contemporary" or perhaps detective or romance novels, not on fiction generally. ~2026-21269-85 (talk) 00:14, 7 June 2026 (UTC)