Edith Wharton was born on January 24, 1862 in New York city. In 1921 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and in 1930 she was elected into the Academy of Arts and Letters. Wharton was not only an accomplished author, but also a home and landscape designer. Her design aesthetic was fully realized in the creation of her estate, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Wharton died of a stroke in France in 1937. Find our more about Edith Wharton on our page of links.

Edith Wharton was born on January 24, 1862 in New York city. In 1921 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and in 1930 she was elected into the Academy of Arts and Letters. Wharton was not only an accomplished author, but also a home and landscape designer. Her design aesthetic came to fruition in her estate, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Wharton died of a stroke in France in 1937.

• The Mount: Estate and Gardens — The Mount was Edith Wharton’s estate in Lenox, Mass and is now a registered historic landmark. The Mount’s Web site includes a blog, detailed descriptions of the buildings and gardens, image galleries, and more.
• The Mount in Lenox will mark 150th birthday of Edith Wharton — This article in the Boston Globe describes the Mount’s planned celebration of Wharton’s birthday.
• For Edith Wharton’s Birthday, Hail Ultimate Social Climbers — This article from the New York Times sheds light on Wharton’s contemporaries, New York heiresses who married into British Royalty.
• Edith Wharton Collection — The Edith Wharton Collection at The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, estimated at some 50,000 items, consists ofmanuscripts, letters, photographs, and miscellaneous personal papers that belonged to Edith Wharton and were part of her estate at her death” as well as documents related to Wharton that were obtained from other personal collections. Part of the collection is available online.
• The Edith Wharton Society — This academic site is devoted to scholarship about Wharton and includes access to back issues of the Society’s “Edith Wharton Review,” links to digitized versions of Wharton’s works, teaching resources and a bibliography of recent articles about Wharton.
• Edith Wharton’s World: Portraits of People and Places — This page from the National Portrait Gallery celebrates Wharton and her family through portraits and a brief biography.

• Edith Wharton Book List — Selected works by Edith Wharton along with some biographies of the author.

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After downloading the file, you use your USB cable to connect your computer and Kindle. Your Kindle will appear as a drive on your computer. Copy your downloaded file from your computer to your Kindle’s documents folder.

Transferring a title from your computer to a Kindle reader using a USB cable is only necessary for older Kindles that lack WiFi or when WiFi is unavailable. Amazon will not transfer borrowed books using the 3G network that they use for purchased books.

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You don’t really need to return ebooks — they return themselves when their due date is reached, becoming inactive for you and available for someone else to borrow. However, you can return them early, and we encourage you to do so. This lets you take out more ebooks if you’ve reached the four-book limit, and it also makes the ebook available for someone else.

To return books, go to Manage My Kindle on the Amazon site and find the ebook in the My Library list. Click on the Return this book option under the Actions menu.

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