If ever a house could serve as an autobiography, The Mount is it. The home of novelist Edith Wharton, it is Edith Wharton. Situated on a hill overlooking a lake in Lenox, Massachusetts, she conceived ...

Is the Mount's plight a bellwether? Certainly the economy doesn't bode well for any cultural institution. But Susan Wissler, acting director of Edith Wharton Restoration, and her recently laid-off ...

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Teddy, who was mentally ill and maritally unfaithful, sold The Mount without his wife's permission. Edith Wharton divorced him in 1913. In 1911, she moved to France, where she lived for the rest ...

There’s a new book on display at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s estate in Lenox. Technically, it’s a very old book – 99 years, to be exact. Its appraised value is $12,500, but to its new ...

LENOX –The Mount, author Edith Wharton's early 20th-Century estate, is now serving as a "green gallery" for outdoor sculpture as SculptureNow presents its 17th annual exhibition, Common Ground.

Not that Edith Wharton was regular ... Jayne himself decorated this room for a fundraiser in 2012, when The Mount enlisted designers to reimagine Wharton's home in keeping with her design principles.

Edith Wharton wrote over 40 books in her lifetime and became renowned for rejecting 19th-century domestic expectations for women. Every year, more than 52,000 visitors flock to The Mount ...

Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edith Wharton. To celebrate and honor Wharton, The Mount in Lenox has formed a National Committee chaired by Former First Lady Laura Bush.

LENOX — Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel ... but it also was set and written during the time period during which she was living at The Mount, her 113-acre estate and home. Haven't ...

Over the weekend, I visited the Mount, the lovely Berkshires cottage — read “country estate” — that Edith Wharton designed and in which she lived from 1902 to 1911. Wharton (1862–1937 ...