| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Whar·ton |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  hwôr tn, wôr- |
| DATES: | 1862–1937 |
| American writer whose works include subtle satires on New York society, such as The House of Mirth (1905), and the short, tragic novel Ethan Frome (1911). She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for The Age of Innocence.
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