1862 |
Edith Newbold Jones born on January
24 in New York |
1866 |
Jones family travels to Italy,
France, Spain, and Germany |
1872 |
Jones family returns to New York;
summers in Newport, Rhode Island |
1873 |
Walter Pater's Studies in
the History of the Renaissance published |
1876 |
Philadelphia Centennial
Exposition |
1877 |
Society of American Artists and
Society of Decorative Arts form; Edith Wharton completes
her first novel, Fast and Loose |
1878 |
Jacob Burkhardt's The Civilization
of the Renaissance in Italy published |
1879 |
McKim, Mead, and White architectural
firm forms; Louis Comfort Tiffany's Associated Artists group
forms |
1880 |
John La Farge receives patent
for opalescent glass; Jones family returns to Europe |
1885 |
Edith marries Edward R. Wharton;
the Whartons live in New York and Newport; travel to Italy |
1888 |
Whartons take Mediterranean cruise
with James Van Alen |
1891 |
Edith Wharton purchases townhouse
at 882-884 Park Avenue, New York; Ogden Codman Jr. redesigns
interior |
1893 |
World's Colombian Exposition
in Chicago; Edith Wharton buys Land's End in Newport; Ogden
Codman Jr. redesigns interior and garden |
1894 |
Whartons meet scholar Vernon
Lee in Italy; Francis Hoppin and Terrence Koen begin architectural
practice in New York City |
1896 |
Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman
Jr. begin The Decoration of Houses |
1897 |
The Decoration of Houses published |
1899 |
Whartons look for summer property
in Lenox, Massachusetts |
1901 |
Edith Wharton purchases Laurel Lake Farm in Lenox
|
1900 |
Whartons summer at The Poplars
in Lenox |
1902 |
The Mount completed; Whartons
move in |
1903 |
Edith Wharton sells Land's End |
1904 |
Italian Villas and their Gardens
published; Henry James, Gailllard Lapsley, and Howard
Sturgis visit The Mount |
1905 |
Italian Backgrounds and
The House of Mirth published |
1907 |
Whartons rent George Vanderbilt's
apartment in Paris, France, for winter months |
1910 |
Whartons separate; Edith Wharton
rents apartment in Paris |
1911 |
Whartons sell The Mount |
1913 |
Whartons divorce |
1914 |
Edith Wharton founds American
Hostels for Refugees |
1915 |
Edith Wharton founds Children
of Flanders Rescue Committee |
1919 |
Edith Wharton moves to Pavillon
Colombe; leases Ste. Claire for winter months |
1920 |
The Age of Innocence published |
1921 |
Edith Wharton becomes first woman
to receive Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Age of
Innocence |
1923 |
Edith Wharton receives honorary
doctorate from Yale University |
1937 |
Edith Wharton dies at Pavillon
Colombe, France |