WWII Notes

Edith Wharton Becomes First Women to Win Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Mrs. Wharton’s Femininity Duluth News-Tribune - Minnesota, Duluth, July 26, 1914

• Description of gender roles and how gender affects the way the author talks about the character in the novel and how the character is influenced by the author 
• Mrs. Wharton’s feminine influence
• Article depicts and takes apart all reasoning why Mrs. Wharton displayed characters that way and the settings blaming it in “femininity”

Xingu, And Other Stories by Edith Wharton Lexington Herald - Kentucky, Lexington, November 19, 1916

• Criticizing her stories in some way

Edith Wharton’s New Novel Springfield Republican - Massachusetts, Springfield, April 29, 1900

• “It would have been hard to find a better model for the refined, analytic and subtle form of fiction to which Mrs. Wharton has devoted herself, and she has happily turned aside from the vagaries and obscurities of her exemplar, so that if her writing is never so brilliant as that of Mr. James at his best, it is also never so bad as his can be at its worst. This is a minor tale, slight in theme and depending for success upon its delicate portraiture and its psychology, but it suffices to show that a new American novelist has come, who may be trusted to continue the fine and fastidious traditions of a school of American fiction which had seemed to lack disciples in the younger generation.”
• Shows more of her accomplishments of her story and not criticizing it like the past articles have done probably because of gender roles

American Author is Discounted Gertrude Atherton Attacks Edith Wharton’s Claim to Fame Duluth News-Tribune - Minnesota, Duluth, May 06, 1906

• Gertrude Atherton against Wharton 
• Gertrude slanders Wharton because “hail her because she is a “society” novelist”
• She sees her as a fake person 

Should She Own Her Child? Edith Wharton in Red Book Magazine Philadelphia Inquirer - Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, January 22, 1922

• The Age of Innocence won Joseph Pulitzer Prize 
• I highly esteemed rating in this special magazine that makes it more significant and praises Wharton’s progress

Best Sellers Yield Big Fortunes for Their Clever Authors Edith Wharton Zane Grey, Harold Bell

Baltimore American - Maryland, Baltimore, February 20, 1921

• Novels “has reached the top”
• Made a lot of money for Age of Innocence and House of Mirth
• Talk about her being a women and the right to serve the amount an omen and fame that she is being recognized for

Wharton Novel Stirs Europe Duluth News-Tribune - Minnesota, Duluth, February 27, 1921

• The Age of Innocence 
• “England has awakened to the fact that these are active days among the American novelist and is welcoming “The Age of Innocence” as the fine flower of our literary effort. James Douglas in the Sunday Express, for example, opens his review by the statement, “Edith Wharton is, of course, the greatest American novelist now living.” All these English reviewers dwell on Mrs. Wharton’s expert literary craftsmanship, on her subtle irony, on the splendid story she has to tell.”

The War and the Authors Montgomery Advertiser - Alabama, Montgomery, June 19, 1921

• “the great war produced no great literature”
• “two greatest American novels since the war, greatest in point of popularity at least, are Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis, and The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, both disassociated form the war, and both novels of manners and customs.”
• There was no presence of important influential literature during wartime