A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Wharton, Edith (Jones)

by John William Cousin

Wharton, Edith (Jones) (1862).—American novelist. The Great Inclination (1889), A Gift from the Grave, Crucial Instances (1901), The Valley of Decision (1902), Sanctuary (1903), Italian Backgrounds (1905), The House of Mirth (1905), Madame de Treymes (1907), The Fruit of the Tree (1907).