Happy belated birthday to Edith Wharton!
Edith Wharton is best known for her literary portrayals of members of high society during the Gilded Age, illuminating and critiquing their practices. Wharton was additionally a prolific designer and wrote several books on interior decorating and garden design. This expertise is often apparent in her writing, which prominently features the buildings, streets, and parks of New York City as they were experienced by the high society of the late 19th and early 20th century. To highlight this motif in Wharton’s novels, this edition of The Age of Innocence, published by San Francisco Fine Press in 2004, features photographs of the locations Wharton describes in her novel alongside the text. The Age of Innocence was first published in 1920, and in 1921 Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize thanks to this work.
