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Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

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Edith Wharton was a woman of extreme contrasts; brought up to be a leisured aristocrat, she was also dedicated to her career as a writer. She wrote novels of manners about the old New York society from which she came, but her attitude was consistently critical. Her irony and her satiric touches, as toon meer well as her insight into human character, continue to appeal to readers today. As a child, Wharton found refuge from the demands of her mother's social world in her father's library and in making up stories. Her marriage at age 23 to Edward ("Teddy") Wharton seemed to confirm her place in the conventional role of wealthy society woman, but she became increasingly dissatisfied with the "mundanities" of her marriage and turned to writing, which drew her into an intellectual community and strengthened her sense of self. After publishing two collections of short stories, The Greater Inclination (1899) and Crucial Instances (1901), she wrote her first novel, The Valley of Decision (1902), a long, historical romance set in eighteenth-century Italy. Her next work, the immensely popular The House of Mirth (1905), was a scathing criticism of her own "frivolous" New York society and its capacity to destroy her heroine, the beautiful Lily Bart. As Wharton became more established as a successful writer, Teddy's mental health declined and their marriage deteriorated. In 1907 she left America altogether and settled in Paris, where she wrote some of her most memorable stories of harsh New England rural life---Ethan Frome (1911) and Summer (1917)---as well as The Reef (1912), which is set in France. All describe characters forced to make moral choices in which the rights of individuals are pitted against their responsibilities to others. She also completed her most biting satire, The Custom of the Country (1913), the story of Undine Spragg's climb, marriage by marriage, from a midwestern town to New York to a French chateau. During World War I, Wharton dedicated herself to the war effort and was honored by the French government for her work with Belgian refugees. After the war, the world Wharton had known was gone. Even her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence (1920), a story set in old New York, could not recapture the former time. Although the new age welcomed her---Wharton was both a critical and popular success, honored by Yale University and elected to The National Institute of Arts and Letters---her later novels show her struggling to come to terms with a new era. In The Writing of Fiction (1925), Wharton acknowledged her debt to her friend Henry James, whose writings share with hers the descriptions of fine distinctions within a social class and the individual's burdens of making proper moral decisions. R.W.B. Lewis's biography of Wharton, published in 1975, along with a wealth of new biographical material, inspired an extensive reevaluation of Wharton. Feminist readings and reactions to them have focused renewed attention on her as a woman and as an artist. Although many of her books have recently been reprinted, there is still no complete collected edition of her work. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Gangbare naam
Wharton, Edith
Officiële naam
Jones, Edith Newbold (birth)
Geboortedatum
1862-01-24
Overlijdensdatum
1937-08-11
Graflocatie
Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, France
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
New York, New York, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France
Oorzaak van overlijden
stroke
Woonplaatsen
New York, New York, USA
Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Paris, France
Hyères, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France
Opleiding
at home
Beroepen
novelist
short story writer
travel writer
landscape architect
designer
Relaties
Clark, Colin (godson)
Farrand, Beatrix (niece)
Fullerton, William Morton (lover)
Wharton, Edward Robbins (ex-husband)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (1916)
nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1927, 1928, 1930)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature | 1926)
Pulitzer Prize in Literature (1921)
National Women's Hall of Fame (1996)
Korte biografie
Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to a wealthy New York family. She spent her early childhood in Europe, where she developed a gift for languages and a deep appreciation for art, architecture and literature.

She was educated by governesses and by her own reading, and began writing at any early age. Verses, her first volume of poems, was published privately when she was 16. In 1885, she married Edward "Teddy" Wharton, 12 years her senior. In 1897, with Ogden Codman, Jr., an architect friend, she published her first major book, The Decoration of Houses (1897). A few years later, she bought 113-acres in Lenox, Massachusetts, then designed and built The Mount, a country home to meet her needs as a designer, gardener, hostess, and writer. During the next 10 years at The Mount, she wrote some of her greatest works, including The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911). After a divorce from Teddy Wharton in 1913, she moved permanently to France. During World War I, she did social reform and humanitarian work, including establishing schools for refugee children, for which she received the Legion of Honor.

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New York, eind 19e eeuw. Newland Archer heeft zich juist verloofd met May Welland, een vrouw uit zijn maatschappelijke klasse die zich braaf houdt aan alle conventies. Een nichtje van May, gravin Olenska komt terug naar New York op de vlucht voor haar man. Archer raakt onder de indruk van de gravin.
Wharton schets met veel gevoel voor detail een beeld van de high society in New York. Mensen doen zoals het hoort en vergeten om echt te leven. Ik heb het boek met veel plezier gelezen. Ik vond het leuker dan "The portrait of a lady" van Henry James waarmee het vaak vergeleken wordt. Het boek is ook verfilmd door Martin Scorcese maar die film heb ik nog niet gezien.
Uitgelezen: 14 mei 2000
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De Wetheralls gingen altijd naar de kerk. Zij behoorden tot die grote groep van menselijke machines die door het leven gaan zonder ooit ook maar iets te verzuimen te doen wat zij de marionetten om hen heen ook zien doen. Weliswaar gingen de marionetten op Belloment niet naar de kerk, maar andere, even belangrijke mensen, deden het wel - en de kring waarin mijnheer en mevrouw Wethertall verkeerden wat zo groot dat God ook op hun lijstje voorkwam p 81

De eerste twee weken na haar terugkeer leek het huiselijke leven van mevrouw Peniston veel op een geestelijke retraite. Ze 'controleerde' het linnengoed en de dekens even nauwkeurig als een boeteling die de verste uithoeken van zijn geweten napluist, ze zocht naar motten zoals een gekwelde ziel zoekt naar verborgen gebreken. De bovenste plank van elke kast moest zijn geheimen prijsgeven, de kelder en de kolenopslagplaats werden tot in hun diepste diepte onderzocht, en als slot van deze schoonmaakriten werd het hele huis in een wit boetekleed gehuld en werd het rijkelijk met een zoenoffer van zeep gewassen p 131… (meer)
 
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