The Edith Wharton Society

MEMBERSHIP The Edith Wharton Society To join, send your check in U.S. funds Society Wharton The Edith payable to the Edith Wharton Society to Dale Flynn The University Writing Program University of California One Shields Avenue Edith Davis, CA 95616 Membership Category Wharton _____Student ($15.00) _____Individual ($20.00) Society _____International ($25.00) Name___________________________ Mailing Address___________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ E-mail:__________________________ Membership Information Illustration from The House of Mirth, 1905 http://www.edithwhartonsociety.org About Edith Wharton TheWharton’s special conferences Principal that we have Works organized-- About the Society in Paris, at The Mount in Massachusetts, at Yale University, and in London--have provided excit- One of the major figures in American literary his- 1897—ing opportunitiesThe Decoration for scholarsof Houses from around the The International Edith Wharton Society, tory, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) presented in- 1899—worldThe to comeGreater together Inclination and exchange (stories) ideas. Our founded by Professor Annette Zilversmit, met triguing insights into the American experience. 1900—panelsThe at MLATouchstone conventions have stimulated on- for the first time on December 17, 1983, at the Author of more than 40 volumes--novels, short 1901—goingCrucial discussion Instances among (stories) both scholars and stu- MLA Convention in New York City. Since that stories, poetry, non-fiction--Wharton had a long 1902—dents.The Our Valley publication, of Decision The Edith Wharton Re- time, members of the Society have seen Edith and remarkable life. She was 1904—view , Thegoes Descent out to over of Man three (stories); hundred Italian subscribers. Villas Wharton take her place in the canon of important born during the Civil War, en- and Their Gardens American literary figures. We are proud of the couraged in her childhood liter- 1905—MLA.The The House Edith of Wharton Mirth; ItalianSociety Backgrounds is an Allied role that the Society has played in fostering ary endeavors by Henry 1907—OrganizationThe Fruit of of the the Modern Tree; Madame Language de Associa- Treymes Wharton scholarship. Wadsworth Longfellow, and 1908—tion, andA Motor-Flight as such, it sponsors through twoFrance; panels The at Hermitthe devoted to such varied friends andannual the Wild MLA Woman convention, (stories) which is always held The special conferences that we have organ- as Henry James and Theodore 1909—the lastArtemis weekend to Actaeon in December. and Other The VerseCall for Pa- ized—in Paris, at The Mount in Massachusetts, Roosevelt; yet she had also read 1910—pers forTales the of Edith Men Wharton and Ghosts sessions (stories) at MLA ap- at Yale University, and in London—have pro- William Faulkner, James Joyce, 1911—pearsEthan at this Frome site, on the CFP list, in the Edith vided exciting opportunities for scholars from and T. S. Eliot, and had actually 1912—WhartonThe Review,Reef and in the February MLA around the world to come together and exchange met Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott 1913—Newsletter.The Custom Deadlines of the for Country this conference are usu- ideas. Our panels at MLA conventions have Fitzgerald. Her upbringing provided her with in- 1915—ally inFighting early to France, mid-March. from Dunkirk to Belfort stimulated ongoing discussion among both sights on the upper class, while her sense of hu- 1916— Xingu and Other Stories scholars and students. Our peer-reviewed publi- mor and polished prose produced fiction that ap- 1917— Summer cation, The Edith Wharton Review , goes out to pealed to a large audience. Recipient of the 1918—The Marne over three hundred subscribers and is indexed in French Legion of Honor for her philanthropic 1919—French Ways and Their Meaning the MLA bibliography. work during World War I and of the Pulitzer 1920—The Age of Innocence; In Morocco Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence (1920), 1922—The Glimpses of the Moon The Edith Wharton Society is an Allied Organi- in 1923 she became the first woman to receive an 1923—A Son at the Front zation of the Modern Language Association, and honorary doctorate from Yale. Wharton was a 1924—Old New York (four novellas) as such, it sponsors two panels at the annual member of the National Institute of Arts and Let- 1925—The Mother’s Recompense; The Writing of MLA convention. The EWS also regularly spon- ters and the American Academy of Arts and Let- Fiction sors two panels at the annual American Litera- ters. 1926—Here and Beyond (stories); Twelve Poems ture Association convention. 1927—Twilight Sleep A naturally gifted storyteller, Wharton wrote nov- 1928—The Children As a member of the Edith Wharton Society, you els and short fiction notable for their vividness, 1929—Hudson River Bracketed will receive the following: satire, irony, and wit. Her complex characters 1930—Certain People (stories) • A subscription to The Edith Wharton Re- and subtly delivered point-of-view make the read- 1932—The Gods Arrive view , which is published twice a year. ing of Wharton's fiction both challenging and re- 1933—Human Nature (stories) • Calls for papers to conferences such as warding, while her own life illustrates the diffi- 1934—A Backward Glance (autobiography) MLA and ALA (American Literature Asso- culties that a woman of her era had to surmount to 1936—The World Over (stories) ciation). find self-realization. Considered one of the major 1937—Ghosts (stories); The Buccaneers , (unfinished • Information on events hosted by the Soci- American novelists and short story writers of the novel, published posthumously) ety, such as the annual dinner at MLA. 20th century, Edith Wharton died in France in 1937. -- Abby Werlock .

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