Photo of the Mary Mason Jones House.
1890 limestone Chateau style mansion of Edith
Wharton's aunt pictured--then and the site now--at the NE
corner of 57th and 5th in New York.
http://www.nysocialdiary.com/archive/socialdiary8.18.03.html
Submitted by Sandra Foster

Edith Wharton is mentioned in a review of Patricia Beard's "After The Ball", the retelling of a 1905 financial scandal of a New York Socialite. It "suggests how Edith Wharton might have sounded had she been hugely interested in the insurance business."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/books/04MASL.html

Sandra Foster
Brookhaven, NY

Garrison Keillor's short essay on Wharton is part of his Writer's Almanac. Scroll down to Wharton's birthday (January 24) to see the entry. http://www.writersalmanac.org/docs/03_01_20.htm