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Edith Wharton

Born on January 24, 1862

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Edith Newbold Wharton (née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

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