Edith Wharton: Battle to save The Mount The home of America's first lady of letters, Edith Wharton's estate is a site of national importance. But now its proprietors face the same fate as so many ...

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 ...

Wharton was 40 years old when she moved into the Mount, and she stayed for only a decade, but it was a decisive one. Until that point, she'd been an unhappily married society matron who dabbled in ...

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 ...

Edith Wharton built The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1902 as a country retreat for herself and her husband, ... Best of all, Edith Wharton’s library has returned to the house.

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 ...

LENOX — Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, "The Age of Innocence," but her best known long tale, "Ethan Frome," was not only inspired by events in the Berkshires, but it also was set ...

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, the home ...

The Decoration of Houses, that seminal tome by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., is largely devoid of photography. In fact, that's one of the things Thomas Jayne, who earlier this year penned ...

LENOX, Mass. — The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home has announced its 2025 summer season, “Where Stories Come Alive.” No one knew better than Edith Wharton the power of storytelling to enrich ...

O ver 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 ...