#edith wharton house

[wensdaiambrose]

Went to the Edith Wharton House Nightwoods tonight for my birthday celebration.

Video 9.

[covvboytears]

House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

[spiritusloci]

Lily Bart, The House of Mirth (2023)

[dailyquotes6563]

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well, you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

[canon-in-too-deep]

Free House of Mirth Typeset

Back again! This time with The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. I actually hadn't heard of this book before, but someone was asking about typesets for it, so I looked it up and thought it'd make a nice afternoon project. I kept the overall design quick and simple since they wanted to use it as a gift. This free typeset is, of course, free for personal use. It is sized for half letter (letter folio), and can be found at the usual folder here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S2wl_PuxCupofnDpqGuk7VjMHYFMWC6g?usp=sharing

Any errors, feel free to let me know! If you use any of my typesets, just please be sure to leave credit, and consider liking/reblogging/following. Thanks!

[addictivecontradiction]

The House of Mirth, 2000

[academiamor]

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

A friend gave me this book with the promise that I would love it, but agonizingly so… He was right, of course. The House of Mirth stands out in my mind as both the companion to and antithesis of Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, peeling back the thin veneer of the glittering upper classes to expose the ugliness within. Like Lily, so many spend their lives groping desperately for a paradise just out of reach; in the end, there are no winners and the paradise we seek is a mere mirage. Despite over a century separating Wharton’s work from present day, the author’s core attack on the haut monde rings true now more than ever, cementing this story’s standing as a timeless classic.

[whosafraidofvirginiawoolf]

But there was something more miserable still—it was the clutch of solitude at her heart the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years. That was the feeling which possessed her now—the feeling of being something rootless and ephemeral, mere spin-drift of the whirling surface of existence, without anything to which the poor little tentacles of self could cling before the awful flood submerged them. And as she looked backs she saw that there had never been a time when she had had any real relation to life.

— The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

[millaysmaeve]

i've been (re)reading some of edith wharton works and i wish the show had at least one of the marriageable girls to be a husband hunter. c'mon where's representation for young women with social ambition? or at least wanting a husband with enough money to have a comftable life

[abookfairy]

I have just started "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton (I've read "The Age of Innocence" earlier in the year and really enjoyed it, so I have high expectations) and just the first two chapters reinforced by belief in Edith Wharton's greatness as a writer.

The first chapter is, for the most part, written from the point of view of a man, Selden, as he interacts with the protagonist, Lily Bart. While he is not outright dismissive of her, he seems to be looking down on her and her intelligence quite a bit. He does not take her seriously and seems to view her as some sort of entertainment.

Meanwhile, the second chapter is written from the perspective of Lily Bart, and you can see how deliberate her actions and words are. Lily Bart is very socially adept, has a good knowledge of how people think, and is far more self-serving than people realize. The reader finds himself going back to chapter one and wondering how much of her words and her behaviour was an act to get what she wanted out of Selden.

While "The House of Mirth" was written earlier than "The Age of Innocence", you can find this running theme of men really underestimating the interiority and the cleverness of the women they interact with, and especially of the women they find desirable. Considering that Edith Wharton grew up in that society, I wonder how much of it was inspired by her own experiences with other men.

[bookwormchocaholic]

Whenever I read "The House of Mirth," and Carry Fisher is mentioned, I think of this special lady:

[theladyofwutheringheights]

The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home from 1901-1911…

[desdasiwrites]

– Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

[linmeiwei]

“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

[streetsofsalem]

Treasure House

Treasure House. That’s how the guide introduced the Codman Estate in Lincoln, Massachusetts, long known as “The Grange,” at the beginning of her tour the other day. It’s a term which has a specific meaning for Historic New England, which has been the owner and steward of the house since 1968: not only the house itself, but all of the treasures therein, encompassing the possessions and papers of…

[awolfinpeopleclothes]

If she was faintly aware of fresh difficulties ahead, she was sure of her ability to meet them: it was characteristic of her to feel that the only problems she could not solve were those with which she was familiar.

- Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth