About Edith Wharton
Edith Newbold Wharton (; née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to...
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.