Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones

SYLLABICATION:	Whar·ton
PRONUNCIATION:	hwôrtn, wôr-
DATES:	1862–1937
	American writer whose works include subtle satires on New York society, such as The House of Mirth (1905), and the short, tragic novel Ethan Frome (1911). She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for The Age of Innocence.


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