By Eric Grode Reporting from Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario, Canada. Edith Wharton’s 1934 autobiography, “A Backward Glance,” glances a bit more carefully at some things than others.

Apple TV+ is getting back in the period-drama game with "The Buccaneers," a new series that is — somewhat loosely — based on the Edith Wharton novel of the same name. Set in the 1870s Gilded ...

Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton’s final novel, “The Buccaneers,” concerns the adventures of five rich — but not the right sort of rich — young American women who, finding the doors of ...

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My first novel was turned down. “[She writes] like Edith Wharton,” the acquisition editor opined, “with too much celery … intelligent, sensitive, clever at times [but] too longwinded and ponderous for ...