The Letters of Edith Wharton Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis Scribners, 654 pages, $29.95 The publication of the letters of a major author is always a cause for excitement, for it allows us … ...

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, ...

Edith Wharton’s 1934 autobiography, “A Backward Glance,” glances a bit more carefully at some things than others. She gives her close friend and fellow literary lion Henry James a chapter ...

She knew everybody, from Henry James to Teddy Roosevelt. Author Edith Wharton, shown circa 1890, saw in the Gilded Age a tendency that resounds in our celebrity- and social media-drenched age: the ...

The most winning character in “Mr. Fullerton” is Henry James, Wharton’s sometimes pompous, mildly jealous, self-absorbed colleague and friend.

Almost 50, Wharton is feeling her age. She no longer considers New York to be her home. She abhors the changes in architecture and in societal structure. Her good friend, Henry James, has become ...

The second of five children born to the theologian Henry James Sr. and the heiress Mary Walsh, James grew up moving between his native New York, New England, London, Paris and Geneva.