Major Works Data Sheet
Major Works Data Sheet
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
| |Biographical Information about the Author: |
|Title: Ethan Frome | |
| |Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones. She supposedly was born on January |
| |24, 1862 in New York, New York. She came from an upper-class New York family and |
| |had a distant relationship with parents. Her parents were embarrassed by her |
| |literary ambitions. In 1885, she married Edward Wharton at the age of |
| |twenty-three in 1885. It was an unhappy and loveless marriage, which led to a |
| |divorce in 1913. This event is what inspired many of Wharton’s novels. Wharton |
| |didn’t begin writing full-time until her early 40’s when she was living in |
| |Lennox, Massachusetts. She wrote many successful novels, including The House of |
| |Mirth (1905), followed by Ethan Frome (1911), The Reef (1912), The Custom of the |
| |Country
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
| |Biographical Information about the Author: |
|Title: Ethan Frome | |
| |Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones. She supposedly was born on January |
| |24, 1862 in New York, New York. She came from an upper-class New York family and |
| |had a distant relationship with parents. Her parents were embarrassed by her |
| |literary ambitions. In 1885, she married Edward Wharton at the age of |
| |twenty-three in 1885. It was an unhappy and loveless marriage, which led to a |
| |divorce in 1913. This event is what inspired many of Wharton’s novels. Wharton |
| |didn’t begin writing full-time until her early 40’s when she was living in |
| |Lennox, Massachusetts. She wrote many successful novels, including The House of |
| |Mirth (1905), followed by Ethan Frome (1911), The Reef (1912), The Custom of the |
| |Country