Fullerton was an urbane man who in England had befriended Oscar Wilde and Henry James and later became involved erotically with numerous persons of both sexes. In 1908 he served as Edith Wharton`s ...

Edith Wharton counted her friendship with Henry James as the crown jewel of her career, but it just might have been a curse. During her lifetime she was labeled, inaccurately, as a disciple of James, ...

In 1911, Edith Wharton found herself stuck at the Belmont Hotel in Midtown ... She abhors the changes in architecture and in societal structure. Her good friend, Henry James, has become reclusive. Her ...

She knew everybody, from Henry James to Teddy Roosevelt ... And two new editions of that work have hit bookstores in recent months. Suddenly, Edith Wharton is hot. The ground for her revival was laid ...

The Shaw Festival in Canada is staging the novelist’s 1901 script, discovered only a few years ago. But how to get its mix of satire and melodrama just right? By Eric Grode Reporting from ...

Novelist Edith Wharton wryly chronicled her Gilded ... The most winning character in “Mr. Fullerton” is Henry James, Wharton’s sometimes pompous, mildly jealous, self-absorbed colleague ...

To read a paragraph by Henry James — a single one can sprawl across ... becoming a pre-Modernist forebear for writers from Edith Wharton to Virginia Woolf. “The power to guess the unseen ...