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Age of Innocence

Kate Abbott
Families picnic on the lawn on a summer evening at the Mount, Edith Wharton's historic house in Lenox.
Photo by Sarah Kenyon
Writing

A shining light touches ‘chill minds, rigorously averted’

August 27, 2020
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Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence forms around the tension between a creative and honest and passionate woman and man who resists and retreats to a closed society.

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Flower beds show bright color at The Mount, Edith Wharton's historic house in Lenox.
Photo by John Seakwood
Writing

The Mount muses on 100 years of the Age of Innocence

August 27, 2020
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100 years ago, Edith Wharton wrote the Age of Innocence in a world shaken by war, pandemic and economic collapse, and this summer, writers and readers around the world are finding her work timely.

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Edith Wharton's books give glimpses of her thoughts at The Mount, her historic house in Lenox.
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Lenox

Writers share a residency with Edith Wharton in the pandemic

July 29, 2020
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Writers Sue Miller, Patricia Park and Dayna Tortorici shared a residency in Edith Wharton’s home this spring, as Covid-19 transformed the world around them.

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Edith Wharton's Library glows on a quiet day.
The Mount
Writing

Edith Wharton’s own ‘Age of Innocence’ comes home on its 100th birthday

February 11, 2020
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A hundred years ago, after World War I, Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence. This winter, her own copy of the book has returned to her library at the Mount.

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Corinna May appears in the Wharton Plays as the Spirit in The Fullness of Life and as Alida in Roman Fever.
Corinna May / Photo by Olivia Winslow
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Edith Wharton comedies return live to Shakespeare & Company

August 23, 2017
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Two women are sitting at an outdoor table at the cool end of a hot day in Rome. They are looking out at the ruins of the Roman forum, and they have known each other since they were teenagers. On another ridge, another woman is thinking with longing and fear of […]

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The gardens glow on a summer day at The Mount, Edith Wharton's historic house in Lenox.
Photo by John Seakwood
Writing

Edith Wharton gets into the trenches in World War I

June 30, 2016
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The tunnel cut into the hill was wholly dark except for “an occasional narrow slit screened by branches.” The gunners had screens behind them, to keep any betraying light from showing where they sat with guns between their knees. Coming out into a “gutted house among fruit trees,” a woman […]

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