Oh, The Places Suh Will Go Nov 18, 2009
It hasn't been a journey for Bo Pelini's second bunch so much as a harrowing, unpredictable ride through dungeons and gilded rooms out of an Edith Wharton novel. Drama tends to move quickly inside a movie theater. (Nebraska Statepaper)
Choosing no kids -- maybe not Nov 16, 2009
Many of my literary heroes had no children: Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, Eudora Welty. Virginia Woolf was childless, and her famous declaration on the importance of a room of one's own made me feel she was even rather chilly toward houseguests. (CNN)
Viewpoints: Hard-hit publications gamble that selling vice will save them Oct 22, 2009
The first thing Hecht did was get his girlfriend, who was "in harlot servitude" when they met, hired as the "first girl reporter" at the paper for $12 a week by pretending she was a Van Arsdale who was a niece of Edith Wharton. When she got caught selling her services in the newsroom, Hecht's cynical Irish editor advised him that reforming women was a time-waster. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Cherished Berkshirestheater troupe imperiled Oct 14, 2009
British-born Tina Packer founded Shakespeare & Company in 1978, with performances staged at The Mount, novelist Edith Wharton s turn-of-the-century estate. In 1999, Packer, who served as artistic director until last summer, spearheaded the $4. (Boston Globe)
'Spirits and the Supernatural' Oct 14, 2009
She's a big fan of women's literature and enjoys the work of Jane Austen, Gustav Flaubert, and Edith Wharton ... Brown's course on Oct. 27 will include a discussion of the Henry James novella, The Turn of the Screw and the Edith Wharton short story, Afterward. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Shakespeare & Co. seeks to slash debt Oct 14, 2009
In 2002, Shakespeare ny moved to the location, a former boys' school, after being in residence at the nearby Edith Wharton estate, called The Mount, since 1978. Belt-tightening measures already begun include streamlining operations, shifting more staff from year-round to seasonal status, eliminating positions beyond the seven full-time jobs already axed, continuing a hiring freeze instituted earlier this year and a 10 percent pay cut for all employees, according to a news release sent out by the... (Albany Times Union)
New Englands fall color not limited to leaves Sep 24, 2009
Take the writer Edith Wharton. If your knowledge of her work begins and ends with "The Age of Innocence," visit The Mount Estate & Gardens, her former house and grounds in Lenox (2 Plunkett St., 413-551-5111, , $16). (MSNBC -- Travel)
In Defense of Katie Roiphe Aug 26, 2009
Defending Katie Roiphe's "My Newborn is Like a Narcotic.". Wednesday, August 26, 2009. (Slate)
New Bedford’s Korolenko leads literary tour in Greenwich Village Aug 23, 2009
On his next trip, he will lead a literary walking tour, pointing out the former homes of Edith Wharton, e.e. cummings, John Reed, and Louisa May Alcott. Korolenko provides maps of the bookstores and literary sites so people can wander on their own. (Boston Globe)
Cedar Grove gets new education coordinator Aug 15, 2009
Her expertise in docent programs comes first hand, having worked as one at several historic sites, including at turn-of-the-century American author Edith Wharton s nearby home in Lenox, Mass. The Mount, which Wharton, also a noted landscape architect, designed, along with its magnificent grounds. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Wharton’s ‘Xingu’ comes to Lenox Aug 14, 2009
Edith Wharton returns to the stage at the Mount next week, and the production is a homecoming of sorts for the actors and director, too. A new theater group called the Wharton Salon is bringing an adaptation of Wharton s story Xingu to the writer s landmark home in Lenox. (Boston Globe)
Walking tour highlights Hudson's colorful past Aug 2, 2009
Henry James and Edith Wharton commented on it when they were here in 1904. The two famous writers ended up in Hudson, said Zimmerman, when their car broke down. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Literary ghost stories Aug 2, 2009
The Victorian and Edwardian eras bring Henry James, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. And then, with the pulps, come H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather and others. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Mightier than the guitar Jul 23, 2009
"My grand-parents raised me reading tons of stuff: Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Southern gothic literature," he says. "My grandfather passed away a while ago now, around Christmas time, and every Christmas I just burned up thinking about it. I miss him a lot and think about the stuff they taught me and I just thought that out of respect - because my grandmother is still alive - I needed to go away and do the work.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Age of Innocence as a Bildungsr... Jul 12, 2009
Edith Wharton's novel, The Age of Innocence, can be studied as a Bildungsroman novel because of psychological growth arc of Newland Archer. Edith Wharton s protagonist in The Age of Innocence is a classic example of a Bildungsroman hero. (Suite101.com)
A Good Woman Found May 25, 2009
Only several years ago, she was honored by inclusion in the Library of America series, cheek by jowl with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. (On the other hand, also represented in this American pantheon are nonentities like Dawn Powell and James Agee, as well as the atrocious Philip Roth. (The American Conservative)
New England News in Brief May 21, 2009
LENOX Deal made with Wharton home creditors The Lenox home of author Edith Wharton has reached an agreement with principal creditors on a restructuring plan that will significantly reduce the estate's debt. Trustees of the home, known as The Mount, announced yesterday that the key to the restructuring was a $750,000 gift from the Alice M. Kaplan Memorial Fund. (Boston Globe)
Edith Wharton's Mass. estate restructures its debt May 21, 2009
Edith Wharton's Mass ... Edith Wharton's Mass ... - The Massachusetts home of author Edith Wharton has agreed with creditors on a restructuring plan to reduce its debt. (Anchorage Daily News)
Get Caught Reading in May May 3, 2009
It includes letters from: Sara Bernhardt, Lord Byron, Ogden Nash, Edith Wharton, Groucho Marx, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other famous personalities. Directed by Robert R. Troie and featuring Garry Mitchell and Joan Macfarlan. (Harwich Oracle, MA)
Valley happenings Apr 17, 2009
Maureen Adams, author of "Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte," was featured on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge" show last Sunday. Adams husband, Marty Adams, served as winemaker at Sebastiani and as a principal in Sonoma Cheese Factory for several years. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Scribblers of America, Unite! Mar 9, 2009
The celebrated get their dueHarriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrisonand so do the forgotten: Mercy Otis Warren, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Austin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Emma Lazarus, Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen, Meridel LeSueur, Ann Petry, and a host of others ... (Henry James, despite being Edith Wharton's great friend, seems never to have missed a chance to... (Slate)
Changing of the guard Mar 8, 2009
Among Ogden Jr.'s noteworthy clients were John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt; he also famously collaborated with author Edith Wharton on the book "The Decoration of Houses.". Yet, according to Churchill, "There was a falling out in the family that prevented James and Henrietta from consulting Ogden Jr.". (Boston Globe)
At Your Library: Programs to lift winter spirits Mar 6, 2009
It includes letters from Sarah Bernhardt, Lord Byron, Ogden Nash, Edith Wharton, Groucho Marx, Madam DuBarry and many others. The second in our Books That Made it To the Movies series will be Atonement shown on Saturday, March 21 at 1 p.m. Director Joe Wright gives Ian McEwan s best-selling novel a sumptuous treatment for the screen that should come to be regarded as one of the defining films of the epic romantic drama. (Harwich Oracle, MA)
Boston's wild Harry Crosby left a gilded legacy of Black Sun books Feb 22, 2009
(Edith Wharton, also in Paris at the time, called him "a sort of half-crazy cad."). His mania came into full flower at the drunken orgies of the annual Four Arts balls. (Boston Globe)
Confessions of a museum junkie Feb 8, 2009
" She didn't believe me, thinking I was making it up about her having studied in Spain. When we finally go there (I wasn't allowed to go ahead to be sure), I was right! They must have missed this one for the traveling show. After being told I wouldn't see any, this was like a Christmas present in July. Edgar Degas is also a favorite. I've seen his "" reproduced and always liked it. It, too, is at the Clark. I was relieved to see that the dancer's face is much sweeter in person. Other highlights... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
