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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Jul 17
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CFP: The Edith Wharton Summit at The Mount 4-6 June 2026 (deadline for proposals: 1 October 2025)
We are excited to announce the first major, in-person international gathering of Edith Wharton researchers in a decade!  Please join us for a “summit” at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home in Len…
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Arielle Zibrak @zibrak.bsky.social · Sep 8
The Condo of Mirth
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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · Sep 8
Slightly diminish a book

Situationship of the three kingdoms
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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · Sep 8
Slightly diminishing a book

Journey to the Store
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laetitiand.bsky.social @laetitiand.bsky.social · May 23
Such a pleasure to present both for the Hemingway Society and the @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social at this year's ALA conference - this was also my last conference as a PhD, but cheers to hopefully many more 🎓
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Aug 28
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Laura Rattray @drlaurarattray.bsky.social · Jul 17
Edith Wharton Summit at The Mount next June! Please help us spread the word. Submissions deadline: 1 October

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The Edith Wharton Summit - The Mount | Edith Wharton's Home | Lenox, MA
The Mount is the home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, MA - the Berkshires. This annual Summit presents new scholarship, experiences, and talks.
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Aug 28
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Edith Wharton Review
The Edith Wharton Review is a peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed,scholarly journal publishing scholarship on Edith Wharton, Wharton in the text of other authors, and Wharton in relation to other writers of th...
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Aug 28
CFP: special issue of the Edith Wharton Review - Edith Wharton and Popular Culture
UPDATE: due date EXTENDED to September 26, 2025
Due date for completed essays is September 10, 2025 Submissions of (approximately 20-30 pages; 6000-10000 words) can be uploaded to link in comment.
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Jul 17
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CFP: The Edith Wharton Summit at The Mount 4-6 June 2026 (deadline for proposals: 1 October 2025)
We are excited to announce the first major, in-person international gathering of Edith Wharton researchers in a decade!  Please join us for a “summit” at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home in Len…
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Jun 4
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CFP: Special issue of Edith Wharton Review
CFP: special issue of the Edith Wharton Review – Edith Wharton and Popular Culture (Due September 10, 2025)
CFP:  special issue of the Edith Wharton Review – Edith Wharton and Popular Culture Due date for completed essays is September 10, 2025 Following the highly successful panels at ALA 2025…
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · May 7
12-E
‘It Girl’ to 'Girl's Girl’" Elif S. Armbruster
“The Comeback of The Glimpses of the Moon,” Laetitia Nebot-Deneuville
"Anesthetic Femininity and the ‘Unlikeable’ Female Character’” Leila Stegemoeller
“The Age of Influence: Edith Wharton’s Stories and Instagram Stories,” H. J. E. Champion
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · May 7
11-E:
“Edith Wharton’s Ordinary Vices,” Nir Evron
“Democratic Social Reform through Literary Realism in Edith Wharton’s Bunner Sisters,” Elizabeth Youngman
“‘The Dissolution of the Ancestral Order’: Wharton, Lippmann, and Democracy,” @emilycoit.bsky.social
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · May 7
Edith Wharton Society at Double-Header at ALA in Boston
Friday, May 23, 2025
1:00 pm – 2:20 pm Session 11-E Edith Wharton and Democracy *and*
2:30 pm – 3:50 pm Session 12-E Edith Wharton and Popular Culture
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · May 7
For my fans in Connecticut, a chance to learn about my niece-the landscape architect Beatrix Farrand - from Connecticut Historian John Cilio.
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Landscape Architecture of Beatrix Farrand Presentation at Seymour Library
SEYMOUR — The Seymour Public Library welcomes Connecticut Historian John Cilio for a free, in-person presentation titled ”Beatrix Farrand – Aspirations That Transcend Time” at the Seymour Public Libra...
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Apr 28
And still no taste.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Apr 23
He's literally touting the robber baron era of the Gilded Age
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 23
Trump: "In 1913 they traded to the income tax system. We used to be all tariff. And we had no income tax and we had the wealthiest country we ever had proportionately from about 1870 to 1913. We had more money than anybody."
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · Apr 26
The American Writers Museum is a great little excursion in Chicago. Check it out if you’re around there.
A wall of American authors, this photo includes Edith Wharton, Ida B. Wells, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sophia Alice Callahan, and W.E.B. Du Bois. A separate wall with quotes from authors. John F. Kennedy "Inaugural Address," 1961 Maya Angelou "Phenomenal Woman," 1978 Toshio Mori "Akira Yano," 1949 Short Story Richard Pryor ….Is It Something I Said? 1975 Comedy Speech "The Gift of the Magi," 1905 Octavia E. Butler Kindred, 1979 Historical Fantasy H. L. Mencken The American Language, 1919 Linguistics Table of typewriters including an Underwood and an Olympia Banners for Chicago writers, including Benny Bearskin, Simon Pokagon, and Roger Ebert.
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Apr 28
merci
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Apr 28
Thanks, but I prefer dogs.
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · Apr 28
"One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways." ~ Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Apr 28
It's high time for a new Age of Innocence adaptation! Good news: Netflix just bought one.

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Netflix to Adapt 'The Age of Innocence' as Limited Series
Netflix has announced a new limited series adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence.
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Apr 7
2025 is an excellent year for Wharton scholarship, if nothing else. We have upcoming panels at:
ALA in Boston May 21-24
SSAWW in Philadelphia Nov 6-9
and in 2026 . . . MLA in Toronto Jan 8-11

stay tuned for more details!

#academicsky #ssaww #mla #ala #mla2026 #ssaww2025
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Edith Wharton @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social · Apr 7
Thank you!
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · Mar 25
I wrote about the history of Wharton film adaptations (and why we haven’t had a decent one of those in 25 years!) for Film Quarterly
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BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social · Mar 27
Some more exciting news from us! Let the haunting begin... 😱

Bewitched: The Ghostly Tales of Edith Wharton is here!

This beautiful collection features Wharton’s spine-chilling classics and rarely told tales.

Grab your copy in-store or online today⬇️
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Tanis Fowler @tanisfowler.bsky.social · Mar 28
I endorse this frog! 🐸

(And the Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 👻)
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Nola Bob @nolabob.bsky.social · Mar 30
#readandplay (302)
#MusicChallenge

Eva Cassidy - Time Is A Healer

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Some things are best mended by a break. - Edith Wharton
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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · Apr 2
. . . a good part of his world of wonder had shrunk to a village peep-show. And the things which had kept their stimulating power—distant journeys, the enjoyment of art, the contact with new scenes and strange societies—were becoming less and less attainable. (16)

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Mar 14
How Henry James can help us make sense of the Gilded Age long gone—and the one now getting stripped of its shine.
The Gilded Age Never Ended
Plutocrats, anarchists, and what Henry James grasped about the romance of revolution.
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