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Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to parents who had a proud position in, 'a compact realm called Old New York.'
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Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to parents who had a proud position in, 'a compact realm called Old New York.' Lowe said they were, '...a socially secure family that could trace its ancestry back through English and Dutch patricians of New York.' Although born at a time when New York provided a stifling environment, Wharton grew up refusing to conform to the society to which she belonged. Lowe said: 'Edith Wharton in many ways was a rebel, even an outcast, and her many novels and tales passionately endorse the struggle to forge one's identity outside accepted social boundaries.' World War One came to an end in November 1918 and, almost as soon as the guns fell silent, Wharton began to draft The Age of Innocence. Janet Beer said: 'Wharton writes to commemorate a past which has been superseded by the cataclysmic social upheavals of the war years.' Many presume Wharton's 'war...
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