English: Photograph taken in Newport, Rhode Island, of author Edith Wharton, wearing hat with a feather, coat with fur trim, and a fur muff. Image courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. Date 1907 Source Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
On this day, August 11th, 1937 Edith Wharton dies. Wharton was born and raised in New York City.
She was a Pulitizer Prize winning American novelist, short story writer and designer.
In addition to her writing accomplishments Wharton was a garden and interior designer. In 1902 she built, The Mount, her estate in Massachusetts which is still used as an example of her design principles.
Edith Wharton died of a stroke in 1937 at the domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, in the département of Seine-et-Oise, but now in Val d'Oise. The street is today called rue Edith Wharton.
She was a Pulitizer Prize winning American novelist, short story writer and designer.
In addition to her writing accomplishments Wharton was a garden and interior designer. In 1902 she built, The Mount, her estate in Massachusetts which is still used as an example of her design principles.
Edith Wharton died of a stroke in 1937 at the domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, in the département of Seine-et-Oise, but now in Val d'Oise. The street is today called rue Edith Wharton.
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