What was Edith Wharton's last book?
The Buccaneers
The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The novel is set in the 1870s, around the time Edith Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937, and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy inviting Nan to a house party to which Guy Thwarte has also been invited. The book was published in 1938 by Penguin Books in New York. After some time, Marion Mainwaring finished the novel following Wharton's detailed outline of the novel in 1993.
Alfred Sherman
By 1982, the latent strains in his relationship with Mrs Thatcher became fully apparent. She complained that he was dismissive of the obstacles she was encountering in dismantling the legacy of decades of socialism, while he berated her for betraying the promise of her early years. After his exclusion from her inner circle she nevertheless continued to regard him with "exasperated affection", and rewarded him with a knighthood in 1983. Yet in the 1990s he said of her, "Lady Thatcher is great theatre as long as someone else is writing her lines; she hasn't got a clue". In July 2005 they were reunited at a reception marking the publication of Sherman's last book with a revealing title, "Paradoxes of Power: Reflections on the Thatcher Interlude".
The Muse’s Tragedy
"The Muse’s Tragedy" is a short-story written by Edith Wharton. Published in 1899 by Charles Scribner’s Sons (25th magazine), The Muse’s Tragedy was then printed in June 1899, as part of the collection of short fiction "The Greater Inclination".
William Morton Fullerton
It was Fullerton's extensive knowledge of the world of publishing that led him to assist author Edith Wharton (with whom, at the time, he was involved) in publishing the French translation of her classic novel The House of Mirth, through a well-known magazine.
Edith Wharton
Her husband, Edward Wharton, shared her love of travel and for many years they spent at least four months of each year abroad, mainly in Italy. Their friend, Egerton Winthrop, accompanied them on many journeys in Italy. In 1888, the Whartons and their friend James Van Alen took a cruise through the Aegean islands. Wharton was 26. The trip cost the Whartons $10,000 and lasted four months. She kept a travel journal during this trip that was thought to be lost but was later published as "The Cruise of the Vanadis", now considered her earliest known travel writing.
Summer (novel)
Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class society, this is one of two novels by Wharton that were set in New England. Its themes include social class, the role of women in society, destructive relationships, sexual awakening and the desire of its protagonist, named Charity Royall. The novel was rather controversial for its time and is one of the less famous among her novels because of its subject matter.
George Paston
Her last novel, "A Writer of Books", was published in 1898. The book dealt with the barriers faced by women writers within the publishing industry, which was then dominated by men. These two works—as well as the four that came betwixt the two—led to Symonds being described as "a writer with a purpose." This last book is widely viewed as her best. Symonds herself viewed it thus, her friend Arnold Bennett wrote, "She is halfway through ["A Writer of Books"], which she says will be her best." Trotter agreed with the author's self-assessment, stating categorically that the book is her best work.
Merrymount Press
Updike's friendship with Edith Wharton led to a long and successful relationship between Merrymount Press and Wharton's publisher, Scribner's. When Wharton published her first book in 1899, "The Greater Inclination", she insisted that Merrymount be the printer. Merrymount would print many more of Wharton's books and other titles published by Scribner's. The association was a fruitful one and vital to Merrymount's success in its early years according to Updike: “Nothing could have helped the Press more, just then, than the Scribner connection, for it showed we were not amateurs but could hold our own with larger printing houses…” In 1915, after visiting the front of World War I, Wharton began collaborating with Updike to plan a collection of original stories, essays, poems, art works, and musical scores, the profits from which would benefit the war effort. The book was published in 1916 alongside a special limited edition run of 175 copies, each signed by Updike.
Edith Beebe Carhart
Later in life she entered the real estate and insurance business.
She compiled a "History of Bellingham" (1926). She wrote "The Angora Wool Rabbit: A Manual for the Beginner" (Miller & Sutherlen printing Company, 1930).
Edith Beebe Carhart moved to Washington in 1916 and lived at 2727 Eldridge, Bellingham, Washington.
She died at the age of 84 on April 1, 1964, in Bellingham, Washington. She was buried in Bayview Cemetery, Bellingham.
Michael Whelan
Whelan has returned to illustrate several major book covers during his semi-retirement, including the last book of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series and the final volume of Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time". In 2015, "The Stephen King Companion: Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror", which feature Whelan's illustrations, was published by St. Martin's Press.
Edith Wharton
Wharton wrote and told stories from an early age. When her family moved to Europe and she was just four or five she started what she called "making up." She invented stories for her family and would walk with an open book, turn the pages as if reading and improvise a story. Wharton began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, and attempted to write her first novel at age eleven. Her mother's criticism quashed her ambition and she turned to poetry. At age 15, her first published work appeared, a translation of a German poem "Was die Steine Erzählen" ("What the Stones Tell") by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, for which she was paid $50. Her family did not want her name to appear in print, since writing was not considered a proper occupation for a society woman of her time. Consequently, the poem was published under the name of a friend's father, E. A. Washburn, a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson who supported women's education. In 1877, at the age of 15, she secretly wrote a 30,000 word novella ""Fast and Loose"." In 1878 her father arranged for a collection of two dozen original poems and five translations, "Verses," to be privately published. Wharton published a poem under a pseudonym in the New York World in 1879. In 1880 she had five poems published anonymously in the "Atlantic Monthly", an important literary magazine. Despite these early successes, she was not encouraged by her family or her social circle, and though she continued to write, she did not publish anything more until her poem "The Last Giustiniani" was published in Scribner's Magazine in October 1889.
Edith Wharton
She would eventually cross the Atlantic sixty times. In Europe, her primary destinations were Italy, France and England. She also went to Morocco in North Africa. She wrote many books about her travels, including "Italian Backgrounds" and "A Motor-Flight through France."
Edith Wharton
American children's stories containing slang were forbidden in Wharton's childhood home. This included such popular authors as Mark Twain, Bret Harte or "Uncle Remus." She was allowed to read Louisa May Alcott but Wharton preferred Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Charles Kingsley's Water Babies. Wharton's mother forbid her from reading many novels and Wharton said she "read everything else but novels until the day of my marriage." Instead Wharton read the classics, philosophy, history, and poetry in her father's library including Daniel Defoe, John Milton, Thomas Carlyle, Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Jean Racine, Thomas Moore, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, John Ruskin, and Washington Irving. Biographer Hermione Lee describes Wharton as having read herself "out of Old New York" and her influences included Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, T. H. Huxley, George Romanes, James Frazer, and Thorstein Veblen. These influenced her ethnographic style of novelization. Wharton developed a passion for Walt Whitman.
Roman Fever
Hemm, Ashley, "Countering Traditional Mating Strategies: Female Serial Monogamy in Edith Wharton's 'The Other Two' and 'Roman Fever.'" Edith Wharton in Washington, Conference Abstract. "Edith Wharton Review 32.1-2 (2016): 116."
J. K. Rowling
The title of the seventh and final "Harry Potter" book was announced on 21 December 2006 as "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". In February 2007 it was reported that Rowling wrote on a bust in her hotel room at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh that she had finished the seventh book in that room on 11 January 2007. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was released on 21 July 2007 (0:01 BST) and broke its predecessor's record as the fastest-selling book of all time. It sold 11 million copies in the first day of release in the United Kingdom and United States. The book's last chapter was one of the earliest things she wrote in the entire series.
"Harry Potter" is now a global brand worth an estimated US$15 billion, and the last four "Harry Potter" books have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history. The series, totalling 4,195 pages, has been translated, in whole or in part, into 65 languages.
Edith Evans
Evans's last stage roles were Mrs Forrest in "The Chinese Prime Minister" at the Globe (1965), the Narrator in "The Black Girl in Search of God" at the Mermaid (1968), and Carlotta in "Dear Antoine", Chichester Festival (1971). After she found learning new roles too much, she presented an anthology of prose, poetry and music under the title "Edith Evans and Friends", both in the West End and elsewhere. In this show she made her final performance on the West End stage, on 5 October 1974. Her last public appearance was a BBC radio programme "With Great Pleasure", a selection of her favourite works, given before an invited audience in August 1976. In "The Guardian", Nicholas de Jongh wrote of her evident frailty, "Yet she can still give the single words and phrases an imperious or serene grandeur, as in her final speaking of Richard Church's poem where she welcomed 'that summoning touch of death our neighbour'. What a glorious star is going out."
Sleeping Murder
Following the publication of P.D. James's début crime novel "Cover Her Face" in 1962, Christie became aware of the need to think up yet another title for the last Miss Marple book. She wrote to Edmund Cork on 17 July 1972, asking him to send her a copy of the unpublished Miss Marple manuscript and a copy of Max's deed of gift. So much time had passed that she was unable to remember if the manuscript was still called "Cover Her Face" or "She Died Young".George Thaw in the "Daily Mirror" of 22 October 1976 said, "Agatha Christie's last novel is very good. "Sleeping Murder" is the last of Miss Marple's excursions into detection. But perhaps it is her best. Agatha Christie wrote it years ago but if I was going to pick a swansong book this is certainly the one that I would choose. It's her best for years."
Edith Templeton
Her short stories began to appear in "The New Yorker" in the 1950s, starting in 1957, and were later published as a collection entitled "The Darts of Cupid" in 2002. Over the next several decades she published a number of novels as well as a travel book, "The Surprise of Cremona". Edith Templeton left England in 1956 to live in India with her second husband, a cardiologist and the physician to the King of Nepal. Her novel "Gordon" was first published by Olympia Press in 1966 under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook. An autobiographical work based on Templeton's relationship with a Scottish psychiatrist, it was banned in England and Germany for indecency, and then grew in popularity and was pirated around the world, before eventually being republished under the author's real name in 2003.
The Age of Innocence
Some believe that "The Age of Innocence" was one of Wharton's best pieces of literature. If people disagreed that it was her best novel, they certainly couldn't disagree that it was Wharton's most famous novel. Many believe that much of Wharton's own life came through in her work. "Ms. Wharton often employed dichotomy in her own life: her role as socialite and author, woman of old New York and European maverick, and her life as spouse or beloved. Compartmentalizing her life’s roles prevented her from having to compromise the distinct qualities of each paradigm. Similarly, in "The Age of Innocence", Ellen and May are completely opposite representations of life and culture in the 1870’s who cannot happily coexist together. Wharton draws this contrast by painting their psychological landscapes, relying heavily on the motifs of water and fire, elements that if combined are mutually destructive."
William Morton Fullerton
William Morton Fullerton (18 September 1865 – 26 August 1952) was an American print journalist, author and foreign correspondent for "The Times". Today he is best known for having a mid-life affair with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton.
Margaret Fink
She was a member of the Sydney Push, a Sydney bohemian group of the 1950s and 1960s that boasted among its membership Lillian Roxon, Germaine Greer, Clive James, and Frank Moorhouse. While still known as Margaret Elliott, she published Harry Hooton's last book, "It Is Great To Be Alive". Her former husband, Leon Fink, is a prominent Sydney businessman and property developer. They married in 1961 and had three children together: Hannah, John and Ben. After their divorce in 1978, they remained living in the same house for a number of years. She has also had relationships with Barry Humphries, Jim McNeil, Bill Harding and Richard Neville.
The Reef (novel)
The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It was published by D. Appleton & Company. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. While writing the novel, Edith Wharton visited England, Sicily, and Germany, among other locations. In a letter to Bernard Berenson in November 1912, Wharton expressed regret regarding her novel, calling it a “poor miserable lifeless lump”. She wrote, “Anyhow, remember it’s not me, though I thought it was when I was writing it—& that next time I’m going to do something worthwhile!!”
Wheat that Springeth Green
Wheat That Springeth Green is J. F. Powers's last novel. It chronicles the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of Joe Hackett, a Midwestern Catholic who becomes a priest and dreams of being a saint. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988, reprinted by Pocket Books in 1990 (), and republished by The New York Review of Books in 2000.
Hermione Lee
Lee has also published a collection of essays on biography and autobiography, "Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing" (2005), and a biography of "Edith Wharton", published to mixed reviews in 2007 by Chatto & Windus and Knopf. Lee has edited and introduced numerous editions and anthologies of Kipling, Trollope, Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith, Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, and Penelope Fitzgerald. She was one of the co-editors of the "Oxford Poets Anthologies" from 1999 to 2002.
Annie French Hector
After her husband's death in 1875, she used his first name as her pseudonym and completed over forty novels as "Mrs Alexander", many of them published by George and Richard Bentley. All her books enjoyed wide popularity in the United States, notably "The Wooing O't" (1873), "Ralph Wilton's Weird" (1875), "Her Dearest Foe" (1876), "The Freres" (1882), "A Golden Autumn" (1897), "A Winning Hazard" (1897), and "Kitty Costello" (1902), her final novel, which was a quasi-autobiographical work detailing a young Irish girl's move to London. Other novels of hers included "The Admiral's Ward" (1883), "The Executor" (1885) and "The Snare of the Fowler" (1892).
Freda Utley
The last of her studies of the Far East, "The China Story", was published in 1951 and was a best seller for several months. "Time" magazine called Utley "a seasoned, firsthand observer of China events." Following the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Utley spent six months in the Middle East and published her last book on international affairs "Will the Middle East Go West?" In it, she warned that America's support of Israel would drive the Arab countries into the waiting arms of the communists. In 1970, Utley published the first volume of her autobiography "Odyssey of a Liberal" which recorded her early experiences in Fabian Society circles, education, marriage, life in the Soviet Union and travels up until 1945. She never published the second volume.
The House of Mirth
The central theme of "The House of Mirth" is essentially "the struggle between who we are and what society tells us we should be". Thus, it is considered by many to be as relevant today as it was in 1905. If its sole subject had been the excesses and lives of the rich and famous, by themselves, it is doubtful it would have remained popular for as long as it has. "The House of Mirth" continues to attract readers over a century after its first publication, possibly due to its timeless theme. That the life and death of Lily Bart matters to modern readers suggests that Wharton succeeded in her purpose: to critique "a society so relentlessly materialistic and self-serving that it casually destroys what is most beautiful and blameless within it."
Edith Holt Whetham
Whetham's later publications, sometimes co-authored, included "London Milk Trade 1900–1930" (1960), "A History of British Agriculture (1846–1914)" (1964), "Cooperation, Land Reform, and Land Settlement: Report on a Survey in Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ghana, Nigeria and Iran" (1968), "The Economics of African Countries" (1969), "Agricultural Marketing in Africa" (1972) "and Beef, Cattle and Sheep 1910–1940" (1976). She single-handedly wrote the eighth volume of the Cambridge University Press series "The Agrarian History of England and Wales" (1978).
Graham Seton Hutchison
Seton Hutchison was also known as a prolific author of both espionage novels and military history. One of his spy novels, "The W Plan", had its proofs read by D.H. Lawrence before publishing. Lawrence dismissed the book as poor for what he felt were its unconvincing attempts to portray Germany and its unrealistic portrayals of female characters. Despite Lawrence's criticisms a film version produced and directed by Victor Saville and starring Brian Aherne, Madeleine Carroll and Gordon Harker was made in 1930. His novels did find favour with Ezra Pound who praised them, along with those of John Hargrave, for what Pound felt was their "specific treatment of live economies". His final novel, "The Red Colonel" (1946), broke from some of his earlier stories in that it was highly critical of the Nazis, mirroring his own disillusionment with that movement.
Elizabeth Enright
Enright's short stories for adult readers were published in magazines such as "The New Yorker", "Ladies Home Journal", "Cosmopolitan", "The Yale Review", "Harper's Magazine" (monthly) and "The Saturday Evening Post". They have been reprinted in anthologies, including "The Best American Short Stories" (1951, 1952) and "O. Henry Prize Stories" (1946, 1949, 1950, 1960); and were collected in "Borrowed Summer and Other Stories", "The Moment Before the Rain", and "The Riddle of the Fly". Her final book, "Doublefields: Memories and Stories", is a combination of short fiction and tales from her own life experiences.
Curtis Harrington
Harrington's final film, the short "Usher", is a remake of an unreleased film he did while in high school, "Fall of the House of Usher". His casting of Nikolas and Zeena Schreck in his updated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s ”The Fall of the House of Usher” is in keeping with the magical thread that runs through the filmmaker’s career. Financing of the film was partly accomplished through the Shrecks' brokering of the sale of Harrington's signed copy of Crowley's "The Book of Thoth".
He died on May 6, 2007, of complications from a stroke he had suffered in 2005. He is interred in the Cathedral Mausoleum at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Edith Wharton
Wharton was born during the Civil War; although Wharton herself in describing her family life does not mention the War except that their travels to Europe after the War were due to the depreciation of American currency. From 1866 to 1872, the Jones family visited France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. During her travels, the young Edith became fluent in French, German, and Italian. At the age of nine, she suffered from typhoid fever, which nearly killed her, while the family was at a spa in the Black Forest. After the family returned to the United States in 1872, they spent their winters in New York and their summers in Newport, Rhode Island. While in Europe, she was educated by tutors and governesses. She rejected the standards of fashion and etiquette that were expected of young girls at the time, which were intended to allow women to marry well and to be put on display at balls and parties. She considered these fashions superficial and oppressive. Edith wanted more education than she received, so she read from her father's library and from the libraries of her father's friends. Her mother forbade her to read novels until she was married, and Edith obeyed this command.
Edith Henderson
Towards the end of her career, Henderson published books on gardening, including "The Peachtree Garden Book: A Month-by-Month Guide for Lawn & Garden Care in the Southeast" (1982) and "Edith Henderson’s Home Landscape Companion" (1993).
Elizabeth Swados
She published three novels, three non-fiction books, and nine children's books. Her later books included "", "Sidney's Animal Rescue", and "At Play: Teaching Teenagers Theater". "My Depression: A Picture Book" (2005), was made into an animated short film that was an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014. The film includes voices by Sigourney Weaver and Steve Buscemi. In June 2016, Swados' final novel, "Walking The Dog", was posthumously published by The Feminist Press. The narrative follows a former child prodigy painter and rich-girl kleptomaniac as she struggles to reintegrate into society following a botched heist which left her incarcerated for two decades.
Crucial Instances
Crucial Instances is Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection.
The Buccaneers
While Wadey's BBC ending was at the heart of the controversy, both Mainwaring's and Wadey's endings were heavily criticized for their "sensationalism" and perceived lack of "trueness" to Wharton's style of work and both writers independently made the claims that they sought to romanticize and "Americanize" the story, despite it having been penned by American novelist Wharton to explore the intersections and clashes of class, commerce and marriage in Old and New World cultures and high society. A companion book to the BBC series was published by Viking in 1995 (). For this book, Angela Mackworth-Young finished the novel based on the screenplay of Maggie Wadey. As a result, the novel has three endings: Wharton's unfinished novel published in 1938, the Mainwaring finished novel published in 1993, and the Mackworth-Young finished novel published in 1995.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a book of children's stories by British author J. K. Rowling. There is a storybook of the same name mentioned in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", the last book of the "Harry Potter" series.
Old New York (novellas)
Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s.
Annie M. G. Schmidt
Her final book, "Wat Ik Nog Weet", a book of childhood memories, appeared in 1992. She used euthanasia a day after her 84th birthday (with a combination of pills and alcohol) and was buried in Amsterdam.
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in October 1979 retailing at £4.50. It was the last Christie book to be published under the Collins Crime Club imprint although HarperCollins continue to be the writer's UK publishers.
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome is a book published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, "Ethan Frome", in 1993.
Edith Wharton
Throughout the war she worked tirelessly in charitable efforts for refugees, the injured, the unemployed, and the displaced. She was a "heroic worker on behalf of her adopted country". On April 18, 1916, the President of France appointed her Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, the country's highest award, in recognition of her dedication to the war effort. Her relief work included setting up workrooms for unemployed French women, organizing concerts to provide work for musicians, raising tens of thousands of dollars for the war effort, and opening tuberculosis hospitals. In 1915 Wharton edited "The Book of the Homeless," which included essays, art, poetry and musical scores by many major contemporary European and American artists, including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, William Dean Howells, Anna de Noailles, Jean Cocteau and Walter Gay, among others. Wharton proposed the book to her publisher, Scribner's. She handled all of the business arrangements, lined up contributors, and translated the French entries into English. Theodore Roosevelt wrote a two-page Introduction in which he praised Wharton's effort and urged Americans to support the war. She also kept up her own work during the war, continuing to write novels, short stories, and poems, as well as reporting for "The New York Times" and keeping up her enormous correspondence. Wharton urged Americans to support the war effort and encouraged America to enter the war. She wrote the popular romantic novel "Summer" in 1916, the war novella, "The Marne", in 1918, and "A Son at the Front" in 1919, (though it was not published until 1923). When the war ended, she watched the Victory Parade from the Champs Elysees' balcony of a friend's apartment. After four years of intense effort, she decided to leave Paris in favor of the peace and quiet of the countryside. Wharton settled ten miles north of Paris in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, buying an eighteenth-century house on seven acres of land which she called Pavillon Colombe. She would live there in summer and autumn for the rest of her life. She spent winters and springs on the French Riviera at Sainte Claire du Vieux Chateau in Hyères.
The Life of the Mind
Arendt's last major work, "The Life of the Mind" remained incomplete at the time of her death. Arendt had long considered writing a work on the mental faculties involved in the philosophy of the mind. From the time she completed "The Human Condition" in 1958, she wanted to complement it by proceeding from the "vita activa" (active life) to the "vita contemplativa" (contemplative life). The intent of the progression of this thought is made clear in the book. She first addressed the second part in her preface to "Between Past and Future" (1961), which she eventually developed into "The Life of the Mind", more than ten years later, her book on thinking. Her concepts became crystallized in 1963 when she wrote "" in which she described how "thoughtlessness", the lack of thinking, could result in evil. From then onwards she became invested in the relationship between thinking and morality. To develop this relationship, she realized would now require a major exploration of the Mind.
Edith Wharton
Wharton's mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, moved back to Paris in 1883 and lived there until her death in 1901.
Marion Mainwaring
Mainwaring is best known as the author who completed Edith Wharton's novel "The Buccaneers", published in 1993. She earlier assisted R. W. B. Lewis in researching his Pulitzer- and Bancroft-prize-winning 1976 biography of Wharton. A novelist in her own right, she wrote the novels "Murder in Pastiche: or Nine Detectives All at Sea" (1954), parodying nine famous fictional detectives, and "Murder at Midyears" (1953), based on her experiences in teaching at Mount Holyoke College. She translated "Youth and Age: Three Novellas" by Ivan Turgenev and edited "The Portrait Game", records of a parlor game played by Turgenev and his friends. Her last major work was "Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton" (2001), a biography of Wharton's lover.
Emily Hunter
For her work, Hunter has gained a public profile. She was named Top Canadians to Watch Under 30 in Flare Magazine in 2011 and Top 10 Amazing Woman Trying to Save the Planet by AOL’s Lemondrop.com in 2010. Hunter appeared in several documentary films, including "At the Edge of the World" by Dan Stone (2008), "" by Trish Dolman (2011), and "Revolution" by Rob Stewart (2013), as well as, a TV-documentary called "Green Heroes". She has appeared on NPR, Voice of America, CBC News Network, A Current Affairs Australia and others. She was written about in several books, including: The Whale Warriors (2007) by Peter Heller and The Last Whale (2008) by Chris Pash.
Edwin O'Connor
His last novel, "All in the Family", appeared in 1966. (It has no relation at all to the later television series of the same name.) It is a story of a Massachusetts family with a father who has political ambitions for his sons. As with "The Last Hurrah", it is not a roman à clef but the clan is certainly reminiscent of the Kennedy family. "Edwin O'Connor, the author of "The Last Hurrah", summed up the era in his final novel, "All in the Family": 'Corruption here had a shoddy, penny-ante quality it did not have in other states...Here everything was up for grabs and nothing was too small to steal...In our politics there seemed to be a depthless cushion of street-corner cynicism, a special kind of tainted, small-time fellowship which sent out a complex of vines and shoots so interconnected that even the sleaziest poolroom bookie managed, in some way, however obscure, to be in touch with the mayor's office or the governor's chair.'"
Thomas Wharton (author)
Wharton's most recent book is the self-published novel Every Blade of Grass (2014), the story of a decades-long correspondence between a man and woman who share a love for the wonders and oddities of nature.
Roman Fever
"Roman Fever" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in "Liberty" magazine on November 10, 1934. A revised and expanded version of the story was published in Wharton's 1936 short story collection "The World Over."
Jeffrey Meyers
"Introduction and Notes" to Edith Wharton. "The House of Mirth". New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003. Pp. xiii-xl. Reprinted 2004.
Edith Wharton
In 1908 her husband's mental state was determined to be incurable. In the same year, she began an affair with Morton Fullerton, a journalist for "The Times", in whom she found an intellectual partner. She divorced Edward Wharton in 1913 after 28 years of marriage. Around the same time, Edith was beset with harsh criticisms leveled by the naturalist writers.
The House of Mirth (disambiguation)
The House of Mirth is a novel by Edith Wharton.
Edith Wharton
Wharton was friend and confidante to many gifted intellectuals of her time: Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau and André Gide were all her guests at one time or another. Theodore Roosevelt, Bernard Berenson, and Kenneth Clark were valued friends as well. Particularly notable was her meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald, described by the editors of her letters as "one of the better known failed encounters in the American literary annals". She spoke fluent French, Italian, and German, and many of her books were published in both French and English.
F. J. Harvey Darton
He retired to Cerne Abbas, Dorset and lived in the village's "Red Lion" pub for the last two years of his life. His final book, "Alibi Pilgrimage," was published in 1936. It examines the case of Elizabeth Canning, who claimed to have been kidnapped by Gypsies in 1753. Darton attempted to confirm the Gypsies' alibi by undertaking long walks through all the counties from Somerset to London.
The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
In 1958, Rand delivered a series private lectures about writing fiction. A successful novelist, playwright and screenwriter, Rand had released her last novel, "Atlas Shrugged", the previous year. Rand's heir (and lecture attendee) Leonard Peikoff says in his introduction for the book that she "was at the peak of her powers as a novelist". The lectures were informal, delivered in the living room of her New York apartment to around a dozen people, by invitation only. These included personal friends and students from the Nathaniel Branden Lectures, a lecture series developed by Rand's protege Nathaniel Branden. Rand led 12 four-hour sessions over six months. The sessions were recorded and later made available for purchase. Boeckmann edited the book out of transcripts of those recordings and related materials, including a follow-up lecture Rand gave in 1959 and comments from a 1969 lecture series she did about "non"-fiction writing.
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, in 1921. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
Hannah Arendt
Arendt's last major work, "The Life of the Mind" remained incomplete at the time of her death. During Arendt's tenure at the New School, in 1974, she presented a graduate level political philosophy class entitled, "Philosophy of the Mind". It was during these class lectures that Arendt crystallized her concepts. The class was based on her working draft of "Philosophy of the Mind", which was later edited to "Life of the Mind". Arendt's working draft of "Philosophy of the Mind" was distributed to graduate students at the New School during her visiting professorship in 1974. She conceived of a trilogy based on the mental activities of thinking, willing, and judging. Stemming from her Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland (1972–1974), her last writing focused on the first two. In a sense, "Life of the Mind" went beyond her previous work concerning the "". In her discussion of thinking, she focuses mainly on Socrates and his notion of thinking as a solitary dialogue between oneself. This appropriation of Socrates leads her to introduce novel concepts of conscience—an enterprise that gives no positive prescriptions, but instead, tells one what I cannot do if I would remain friends with myself when I re-enter the two-in-one of thought where I must render an account of my actions to myself—and morality—an entirely negative enterprise concerned with forbidding participation in certain actions for the sake of remaining friends with oneself. She died suddenly five days after completing the second part, with the first page of Judging, still in her typewriter. The task then fell to McCarthy to edit the first two parts and provide some indication of the direction of the third.
Leigh Wharton
Wharton was director of more than thirty three documentaries. His production- "Edge of Survival"- which he directed, wrote and photographed - won the World Hunger Media Award and was a finalist in the American Film Festival, and aired four times as a PBS-TV Prime-Time Special Program 1979. The film was also honored at the Museum of Modern Art
Edith Wharton
In the middle of Wharton's debutante season, the Jones family returned to Europe in 1881 for Wharton's father's health. Wharton's father, George Frederic Jones, died in Cannes in 1882 of a stroke. Stevens was with the Wharton family in Europe during this time. Wharton and her mother returned to the United States and Wharton continued her courtship with Stevens announcing their engagement in August 1882. The month the two were to marry, the engagement abruptly ended.
Eric Whelpton
His last two books, "The Making of a European" (1974) and "The Making of an Englishman" (1977), are largely autobiographical. He was married to the artist and travel writer Barbara Whelpton who painted under the pseudonym of Barbara Crocker.List of Old Abingdonians
Edith Marguerite Harrington
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Belgian refugees
Because of the tension present already before the First World War and reaching a turning point with the Easter Rising, it is difficult to have Ireland listed here as part of Britain, or not. Given the fact that the story of Belgians in Ireland during the war was a rather different one to those in Britain, not least because the major difference in numbers, Ireland is retained as a separate entity here.Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt. Helped by her influential connections to the French government, primarily through Walter Berry (then president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris), she was one of the few foreigners in France allowed to travel to the front lines during the First World War. Wharton described those trips in the series of articles "". Throughout the war she worked tirelessly in charitable efforts for refugees and, in 1916 was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in recognition of her commitment to the displaced. The scope of her relief work included setting up workrooms for unemployed Frenchwomen, organizing concerts to provide work for musicians, opening tuberculosis hospitals and founding the American Hostels for Belgian refugees. In 1916 Wharton edited "The Book of the Homeless," composed of writings, art, erotica and musical scores by almost every major contemporary European artist. When World War I ended in 1918 she abandoned her fashionable urban address for the delights of the country at the Pavillon Colombe in nearby Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt.
On 12 October 1920, a memorial was unveiled at Victoria Embankment Gardens. A statue by the Belgian sculptor Victor Rousseau was given to the British nation. Belgium was represented by Princess Clementine of Belgium, several members of the Royal Family and the Belgian Prime Minister Delacroix. The memorial is proof of Belgian gratitude to the people of Britain who had accommodated the Belgians so well during WW1. Representing the British nation was Lord Curzon, the then Foreign Secretary and friend of the Belgian King Albert.
Curtain (novel)
Christie wrote the novel in the early 1940s, during World War II. Partly fearing for her own survival, and wanting to have a fitting end to Poirot's series of novels, Christie had the novel locked away in a bank vault for over thirty years. The final Poirot novel that Christie wrote, "Elephants Can Remember", was published in 1972, followed by Christie's last novel, "Postern of Fate". Christie authorised "Curtain"'s removal from the vault and subsequent publication. It was the last of her books to be published during her lifetime.
Afterward
"Afterward" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the 1910 edition of "The Century Magazine". and later reprinted in her books " The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton" and "Tales of Men and Ghosts" (1910). It is an ironic ghost story about greed and retribution. The ghost comes for one of the main characters long after a business transgression where the character wronged another.
Janet Beer
Beer has an established record of research in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture and contemporary Canadian women’s writing. She has written a number of books about Edith Wharton, most recently, in 2011, 'Sex, Satire and the Older Woman' (co-authored with Avril Horner). She has published widely on early twentieth-century American literary figures, transatlantic relationships and cultures.
The Wanderer (Burney novel)
The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties is Frances Burney’s last novel. Published in March 1814 by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, this historical novel with Gothic overtones set during the 1790s tells the story of a mysterious woman who attempts to support herself while hiding her identity. The novel focuses on the difficulties faced by women as they strive for economic and social independence.
John F. Wharton
Wharton was an accomplished author, with several titles to his credit, including books on economics ("The Theory and Practice of Making a Living" and "The Road to Recovery") as well as a memoir of his time with the Playwright's Company ("Life Among the Playwrights"), and a novel ("The Explorations of George Burton") that dealt with psychology, an interest of his throughout his career.
William Wharton (author)
His first novel "Birdy" was published in 1978 when he was more than 50 years old. "Birdy" was a critical and popular success and it won the U.S. National Book Award in category First Novel.
Alan Parker directed a film version starring Nicolas Cage and Matthew Modine. After the publication of "Birdy" and through the early 1990s, Wharton published eight novels, including "Dad" and "A Midnight Clear", both of which were also made into films. "Dad" starred Jack Lemmon and Ethan Hawke in one of his first movie roles. Hawke also starred in "A Midnight Clear".
George P. Putnam
Earhart disappeared in 1937 while on her second attempt to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe. In addition to her first work, Putnam published two other books Earhart wrote about flying, "The Fun of It" (1932), a memoir of her flying experiences and an essay on women in aviation and "Last Flight" (1937), consisting of letters and memorandum compiled by Putnam after her disappearance. Putnam also published her biography in 1939 under the title "Soaring Wings: A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Although a major blaze at the Putnam residence in Rye destroyed many family treasures and Earhart's personal mementos, Putnam later donated some of Earhart's belongings, including photographs, private letters and a flight jacket, to Purdue University, where she had worked as a career counselor. Other personal effects were sent to the Women's Archives in New York.
Deborah Burton
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David Eyton-Jones
Several books have been published after WW2, speaking about the 2nd SAS experience of David Eyton Jones during Operation Tombola. 
From "Winged Dagger" (1948) and "Operation Tombola" (1960) written by Roy Alexander Farran, to "Special Operation Executed" (1986) of Michaal Lees, then the italian books "Il bracciale di sterline" (2011), "Il paradiso dei folli" (2014), "Il suonatore matto- the mad piper" (2017) all written by journalist and author Matteo Incerti. The latest one is 'SAS Italian Job" written in 2018 by the english author Damien Lewis.
Few weeks before his death, David Eyton Jones gave his last interview with the journalist Matteo Incerti. 
Eyton-Jones died in his sleep on 1 August 2012.
The Last Whale
The Last Whale is a 2008 book by Chris Pash, an Australian author and journalist. It is about the end of whaling in Australia including the closure of the last Australian whaling company, Cheynes Beach Whaling Company.
George Eliot
Her last novel was "Daniel Deronda", published in 1876, after which she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey. By this time Lewes's health was failing, and he died two years later, on 30 November 1878. Eliot spent the next two years editing Lewes's final work, "Life and Mind", for publication, and found solace and companionship with John Walter Cross, a Scottish commission agent 20 years her junior, whose mother had recently died.
William Wharton (author)
In 1988, Wharton's daughter, Kate, his son-in-law Bill, and their two children, two-year-old Dayiel and eight-month-old Mia, were killed in a 23-car motor vehicle accident near Albany, Oregon, that was caused by smoke generated by grass-burning on nearby farmland. Wharton wrote a (mostly) non-fiction book, "Ever After: A Father's True Story" (1995), which recounts the incidents leading to the accident, his family's subsequent grief, and the three years which he devoted to pursuing redress in the Oregon court system for the field-burning that caused the accident. "Houseboat on the Seine", a memoir, was published in 1996, about Wharton's purchase and renovation of a houseboat.
Elizabeth Moorhead
Her final book, "These Too Were Here: Louise Homer and Willa Cather", was published in 1950, also by the University of Philadelphia Press. It was a short reminisce about the early life of Pittsburgh novelist Willa Cather. Although it became the basis of many biographies of Cather, later reviewers have described it as "highly romanticized" and have questioned its accuracy.
Hudson River Bracketed architectural style
"Hudson River Bracketed" is the title of one of American writer Edith Wharton's last novels, published in 1929.
Roman Fever
Ellison, Kristie L., "Make War, Not Love: Exploring Female Equality in Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever.' Edith Wharton in Washington, Conference Abstract. "Edith Wharton Review 32.1-2 (2016):" 111.
The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts)
The Mount's main house was inspired by the 17th-century Belton House in England, with additional influences from classical Italian and French architecture. Edith Wharton used the principles described in her first book, "The Decoration of Houses" (co-authored with Ogden Codman, Jr.), when she designed the house. She thought that good architectural expression included order, scale, and harmony. Its west (entry) elevation is three stories; on the garden side it is two stories with an opening out to a large, raised, stone terrace overlooking the grounds. The house exterior is a striking white stucco, strongly set off by dark green shutters, and rises from a quasi-rustic foundation of coarse field stone. Clusters of gables and white chimneys rise from the roof, which is capped with a balustrade and cupola. This main house is augmented by Georgian Revival gatehouse and stable, and a beautifully restored Lord and Burnham Greenhouse. Wharton's sometime collaborator, Ogden Codman, Jr., assisted with the architectural design. Wharton's niece, Beatrix Jones Farrand, designed the kitchen garden and the drive; Farrand was the only woman of the eleven founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Edith Wharton and her husband, Edward, lived in the Mount from 1902 to 1911. After the Whartons left, the house was a private residence, a girls' dormitory for the Foxhollow School, and site of the theatre company Shakespeare & Company. It was then bought by Edith Wharton Restoration, which has restored much of the property to its original condition and oversees the running of the property.
Emma Roberts (author)
Back in England Roberts turned to editing for a while. She edited a new edition (the 64th) of the famous cookbook, Maria Eliza Rundell's "A New System of Domestic Cookery", and also a book of poetry by her friend Letitia Landon. But by 1839 she decided to return to India, not simply by sailing directly, but by crossing overland from France, through Egypt to Suez, and then by ship to Bombay. She went with only a female friend and took only two months to complete her journey, arriving at the end of October. This was a similar journey to that made by Anne Elwood, who thought Roberts's journey too quick. Roberts wrote a book about her journey. In India she returned to editing, the "Bombay Gazette" being one title, but died suddenly in September 1840 and was buried near the grave of Maria Jane Jewsbury.
Frances Cashel Hoey
According to Elizabeth Lee in the old "Dictionary of National Biography", Hoey was also largely responsible for "Land at Last" (1866), "Black Sheep" (1867), "Forlorn Hope" (1867), "Rock Ahead" (1868), and "A Righted Wrong" (1870). These five novels were published under the name of Edmund Yates. Hoey was sole author of the last work. Eventually, the secret of her authorship was revealed, and she also helped Yates in 1874 to plan, and then write, "The World". P. D. Edwards in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" describes this account, circulated by Anthony Trollope who held a grudge against Yates, as "probably spurious".
Eleanor Wachtel
Wachtel is a contributor to the best-selling, "Dropped Threads" (2001), edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, and "Lost Classics" (2000), edited by Michael Ondaatje and others. In 2007, she published "Random Illuminations: Conversations With Carol Shields". Wachtel has co-edited two books: "The Expo Story" (1986), and "Language in Her Eye" (1990), and is the co-author of "A Feminist Guide to the Canadian Constitution" (1992).
The Buccaneers
After careful study of the synopsis and notes, Wharton scholar Marion Mainwaring finished the novel with an ending very uncharacteristic of that found in any of Wharton's novels. Mainwaring's version was published by Penguin Books () in 1993. Independently, around the same time, screenwriter Maggie Wadey was commissioned to adapt and finish the novel for a television version co-produced by the BBC and American PBS broadcaster WGBH; it was screened on BBC 1 in the UK and in the "Masterpiece Theatre" series in the United States during 1995. This serial adaptation was directed by Philip Saville and executive produced by Phillippa Giles.
Ogden Codman Jr.
After brief apprenticeships with Boston architectural firms, Codman started his own practice in Boston, where he kept offices from 1891 to 1893, after which time he relocated his main practice from Boston to New York City. Codman also opened offices in Newport, Rhode Island as early as 1891, and it was in Newport that he first met novelist Edith Wharton. She became one of his first Newport clients for her home there, Land's End. In her autobiography, "A Backward Glance", Wharton wrote:
Edith Wharton
Aided by her influential connections in the French government, she and her long-time friend Walter Berry (then president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris), were among the few foreigners in France allowed to travel to the front lines during World War I. She and Berry made five journeys between February and August 1915, which Wharton described in a series of articles that were first published in "Scribner's Magazine" and later as "", which became an American bestseller. Travelling by car, Wharton and Berry drove through the war zone, viewing one decimated French village after another. She visited the trenches, and was within earshot of artillery fire. She wrote, "We woke to a noise of guns closer and more incessant ... and when we went out into the streets it seemed as if, overnight, a new army had sprung out of the ground".
Roman Fever
Almost universally praised by critics, "Roman Fever" earned a place in "An Edith Wharton Treasury" (1950) and "The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton" (1958). It is the title story of "Roman Fever and Other Stories", a collection of Wharton's writing originally published in 1964 and still in print. Widely thought to be one of Wharton's most anthologized stories, "Roman Fever" is the subject of numerous critical studies as outlined in the partial bibliography provided below.
William Wharton (author)
William Wharton (7 November 1925 – 29 October 2008), the pen name of the artist Albert William Du Aime, was an American-born author best known for his first novel "Birdy", which was also made into a critically acclaimed film by the same name in 1984.
Daniel Farson
His last book was a "portrait" of the artists Gilbert and George, published posthumously in 1999 (he had already, in 1991, published an informal account of a trip he took with them to Moscow). He devised the Channel 4 art quiz "Gallery" and he worked as TV critic and, later, art critic for "The Mail on Sunday" (oddly, another Associated Newspapers title).
He also wrote travel books, including "A Traveller in Turkey", "The Independent Traveller's guide to Turkey" and "A Dry Ship to the Mountains (Down the Volga and Across the Caucasus in My Father's Footsteps)", the book version of the children's TV series "The Clifton House Mystery" (produced by HTV West for ITV in 1978), and an appreciation of "Marie Lloyd and music hall" and a recollection of "Soho in the Fifties" (a time and a place in which he had found one of his few natural homes).
The Secrets of Droon
The Secrets of Droon is a fantasy book series by Tony Abbott aimed at elementary school-age children. The first book, "The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet", was published on June 1, 1999. On October 1, 2010, the final book of the series, "The Final Quest", was released, concluding its eleven-year run. The series consisting of 44 books (including Special Editions) are still published. The series was named by the American Booksellers Association among the top ten books for Harry Potter fans.
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton later died of a stroke on August 11, 1937 at "Le Pavillon Colombe", her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt. She died at 5:30 p.m., but her death was not known in Paris. At her bedside was her friend, Mrs. Royall Tyler. Wharton was buried in the American Protestant section of the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, "with all the honors owed a war hero and a chevalier of the Legion of Honor...a group of some one hundred friends sang a verse of the hymn 'O Paradise'..."
Edith Whetnall
Whetnall died of myasthenia gravis in Marylebone on 23 October 1965 having published "The Deaf Child" with University College London Professor of Phonetics, D.B.Fry, the year before. In 1970 another book was published by Whetnall and Fry titled "Learning to Hear". The publication was assisted by her widower Dr Robert Niven.
May Sarton
Sarton later moved to York, Maine. In 1990, she suffered a stroke, which temporarily debilitated her writing process. Since writing was difficult, she began using a tape recorder, resulting in her journal "Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year" (1992), which was recorded and transcribed from a cassette. Despite her physical difficulties, she always maintained a sense of her independence. "Endgame" was followed by the journal "Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year (1993)". "Encore" is a celebration of Sarton's life, with or without the limitations of old age. She won the Levinson Prize for Poetry in 1993. Sarton's final book, "Coming Into Eighty (1995)", published after her death, covers the year from July, 1993 to August, 1994. While still wrestling with the experience of coming into old age, Sarton maintained a similar gratitude for life in "Coming Into Eighty" as she did with "Encore". She died of breast cancer on July 16, 1995, and is buried in Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, New Hampshire.
Alfred Wainwright
"The Outlying Fells of Lakeland" (an idea he had previously rejected), published in 1974, was his last major guidebook. Thereafter he concentrated on sketchbooks of larger-size line drawings until his eyesight began to fail in the mid-1980s. His "Ex-Fellwanderer", an autobiographical work published in 1987, was intended to be his last written work, but he continued to lend his name and some written commentary to a series of "coffee table books" featuring the photography of Derry Brabbs.
W. D. Hamilton
A secular memorial service (he was an agnostic) was held at the Chapel of New College, Oxford on 1 July 2000, organised by Richard Dawkins. He was buried near Wytham Woods. He, however, had written an essay on "My intended burial and why" in which he wrote:
The second volume of his collected papers, "Evolution of Sex", was published in 2002, and the third and final volume, "Last Words", in 2005.
Hamilton started to publish his collected papers starting in 1996, along the lines of Fisher's collected papers, with short essays giving each paper context. He died after the preparation of the second volume, so the essays for the third volume come from his coauthors.
Mary Wharton
After her doctoral work, she took a teaching position at Georgetown College where she spent 30 years. She collected plant species for the University of Kentucky Herbarium. Besides being an avid plant collector, Wharton was also a writer. Wharton collaborated with Roger Barbour on two field guides, "Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky" (1971) and "Shrubs of Kentucky" (1973), and a natural history of the Inner Blueglass Region, "Bluegrass Land and Life". In addition, Wharton edited diaries and letters of Martha McDowell Buford Jones, a Confederate wife, published in 1986 as "Horse World of the Bluegrass and Peach Leather and Rebel Grey".
Edith Birkin
In 1946 Birkin moved to England, where she became a teacher and went on to adopt three children. In the 1970s she studied A-level History of Modern Art and went on to take a course in fine art. She has painted a series of paintings in response to her experiences, and also written a book of poems titled "The Last Goodbye", also published as Edith Hofmann. She described her work as expressing the "sense of loneliness or isolation experienced by so many".
Margaret C. Anderson
Anderson published a three-volume autobiography: "My Thirty Years' War" (1930), "The Fiery Fountains", and "The Strange Necessity" in her last years in Le Cannet. There she wrote her final book, the novel and memoir, "Forbidden Fires".
The House of Mirth
The final title Wharton chose for the novel was "The House of Mirth" (1905), taken from the Old Testament:
Angela Carter
As well as being a prolific writer of fiction, Carter contributed many articles to "The Guardian", "The Independent" and "New Statesman", collected in "Shaking a Leg". She adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank. Two of her fictions have been adapted for film: "The Company of Wolves" (1984) and "The Magic Toyshop" (1987). She was actively involved in both adaptations; her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, "The Curious Room", together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando", an unproduced screenplay entitled "The Christchurch Murders" (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures") and other works. These neglected works, as well as her controversial television documentary, "The Holy Family Album", are discussed in Charlotte Crofts' book, "Anagrams of Desire" (2003). Her novel "Nights at the Circus" won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for literature. Her last novel, "Wise Children", is a surreal wild ride through British theatre and music hall traditions.
Edith Wharton
Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to
her fifteen novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir.
Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence" (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. The three fiction judges—literary critic Stuart Pratt Sherman, literature professor Robert Morss Lovett, and novelist Hamlin Garland—voted to give the prize to Sinclair Lewis for his satire "Main Street", but Columbia University's advisory board, led by conservative university president Nicholas Murray Butler, overturned their decision and awarded the prize to "The Age of Innocence". She was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.
J. T. Edson
Towards the 1990s as his health began to fail, as well as the expansions, he primarily wrote "fill in the gaps" books or anthologies of short stories about characters. The last J T Edson book available in the UK, Mark Counter's Kin, was an anthology. However, he also wrote and published the first three in a quartet of new books designed to fill in what happened to Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and Lon Ysabel as they made their way home to the OD Connected after the events of the Floating Outfit title "Return to Backsight" (which Edson used as a springboard to launch his Waco series): "Wedge Goes To Arizona", "Arizona Range War" and "Arizona Gun Law" are only available via American bookstores, as is his long-promised "Belle Boyd"-centric novel, "Mississippi Raider" (also a new work). The final book in the quartet, "Arizona Takeover", was apparently not published. Whether it was completely unwritten or prepared in manuscript form is unknown.