1. Edith Wharton uses the international theme.

2. Edith Wharton was an important as well as a prolific writer at the turn of century.

3. By contrast, society for Edith Wharton is a collapsing affair.

4. Edith Wharton continued writing her satires of the life and manners of the New York aristocracy.

5. Edith Wharton . Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

6. After being reevaluated in the second wave of feminist movement in the sixties and seventieth of the last century, Edith Wharton has been established as an outstanding precursor of feminism.

7. James's correspondents included celebrated contemporaries like Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton and Joseph Conrad, along with many others in his wide circle of friends and acquaintances.