Edith Wharton Chronology from the Edith Wharton Society

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An Edith Wharton Chronology

For more information on Edith Wharton's life and work, consult these or other sources, from which the information on this page has been derived:

Benstock, Shari. No Gifts From Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton. New York: Scribner's, 1994.
Dwight, Eleanor. Edith Wharton, An Extraordinary Life: An Illustrated Biography
Lewis, R.W.B., and Nancy Lewis, eds. The Letters of Edith Wharton. New York: Scribners, 1989.
Lewis, R.W.B. Edith Wharton: A Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
Wharton, Edith. Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings. Notes by Cynthia Griffin Wolff. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1990.

Note: This is a brief description of some events in Wharton's life; it is not a comprehensive bibliography of Wharton's works.
For detailed information about Wharton's works, publication dates, and so on, see the books above and
Stephen Garrison's Edith Wharton: A Descriptive Bibliography (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990).

Year Life Works
Note: Titles in smaller type are poems. A single date (day and month) indicates the first date of book publication for the volume mentioned.

1862 24 January. Edith Newbold Jones is born in New York City to Lucretia Rhinelander Jones and George Frederic Jones. She is the youngest and only girl of three children. Her two brothers, Frederic (16) and Harry (11), are much older than she.
20 April. Edith is baptized in Grace Church, New York City.

1866-1867 The Jones family sets sail for Europe and spend the first year in Rome. They also travel through Spain.

1868-1870 Edith Wharton by Edward Harrison May The Jones family lives in Paris at 61 avenue Josephine. In the summer of 1870, they move on to Bad Wildbad in Germany, where Edith falls dangerously ill of typhoid fever. By the end of 1870, the family settles in Florence. At about this time, her portrait is painted by Edward Harrison May. Edith Wharton at age 5 by Edward Harrison May. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery.

1872 June. The family returns to their New York house on West 23rd Street, after which they move to Newport, Rhode Island, for the summer, like many wealthy New York families.

1873-1875 During this period, Edith studies French and German as well as other subjects; as was the custom for well-to-do girls, she is tutored at home.

1876 Begins to write Fast and Loose, a novella of 30,000 words that she finishes in January 1877.

1878-1879 Verses, a collection of her poems, is privately printed; her mother pays for the printing. Among those who see the poems are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Dean Howells, editor of the Atlantic Monthly. In 1879, she is presented to society according to the customs of the day. Verses (1878)

1880 Edith Wharton at about 18 years of age Becomes engaged to Henry Leyden Stevens, whose mother, Mrs. Paran Stevens, opposes the match. Five of Edith's poems appear in the Atlantic Monthly, and two appear in the New York World. Image reproduced from R. W. B. Lewis, Edith Wharton: A Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1975; Fromm International Publishing, 1985. Aeropagus."Atlantic Monthly 45 (Mar. 1880): 335.
"A Failure" Atlantic Monthly 45 (April 1880): 464-65.
The Parting Day."Atlantic Monthly 45 (Feb. 1880): 194.
"The Parting Day" (MOA)
"Patience"Atlantic Monthly 45 (April 1880): 548-49.
"Wants"Atlantic Monthly 45 (May 1880): 599.

1881 Travels to southern France with her family.

1882 March. Father dies in Cannes. Although her engagement to Henry Stevens has been announced, it is later broken off at the insistence of his mother, and Edith goes to Paris with her mother. Stevens dies in 1885, and his mother inherits the large trust fund that would have been his had he lived.

1883 Edith spends the summer in Bar Harbor, Maine. She meets Walter Berry, who will become a close friend and whom she will later call "the love of all my life," and her future husband, Edward ("Teddy") Wharton.

1884-1888 29 April 1885. Edith marries Edward Wharton in New York City. The couple live in Newport and spend several months in Europe each spring.
During this period, Wharton continues her voracious reading and intensive study of art, science, philosophy, and literature. In 1888, the Whartons travel to the Aegean on a four-month cruise.

1889 The Whartons return to New York City. "Euryalus."Atlantic Monthly 64 (Dec. 1889): 761.Euryalus
"Happiness" Scribner's Magazine 6 (Dec. 1889): 715.Happiness
"The Last Giustianini" Scribner's Magazine 6 (Oct. 1889): 405-06. The Last Giustiniani

1890 Continues to write, but her letters describe her suffering from an unexplained illness. A story, "Mrs. Manstey's View," is accepted for publication in Scribner's, the first of many she will publish in that magazine and others.

1891 The Whartons buy a house on Fourth Avenue (later 884 Park Avenue) in New York City. "Botticelli's Madonna in the Louvre." Scribner's Magazine 9 (Jan. 1891): 74.Botticelli's Madonna In The Louvre
"The Sonnet."Century Magazine 43 (Nov. 1891): 113.The Sonnet
"The Tomb of Ilaria Giunigi."Scribner's Magazine 9 (Feb. 1891): 156 The Tomb Of Ilaria Giunigi
"Mrs. Manstey's View," Scribner's (July 1891)

1892 Writes "Bunner Sisters," a long story that is not published until 1916 (in Xingu). "Two Backgrounds" (LA VIERGE AU DONATEUR. and MONA LISA) Scribner's Magazine 12 (Nov. 1892): 550. Two Backgrounds (MOA)

1893 The Whartons purchase Land's End, a house in Newport, and hire Ogden Codman as the interior designer. Edith works closely with Codman on the design for remodeling the house. "Chartres" Scribner's Magazine 14 (Sept. 1893): 287.Chartres
"Experience." Scribner's Magazine 13 (Jan. 1893): 91.

1894-1895 Travel through Tuscany. During her time in Italy, EW visits Violet Paget ("Vernon Lee"). She also identifies a group of terra-cotta sculptures as being from the sixteenth-century school of the Robbias, rather than a work of the seventeenth century. Her essay chronicling the discovery is published in Scribners ("A Tuscan Shrine," [January 1895]). "An Autumn Sunset" Scribner's Magazine 16 (Oct. 1894): 419. An Autumn Sunset
"Life"Scribner's Magazine 15 (June 1894): 739. Life (MOA)

1895 "Jade" Century Magazine 49 (Jan. 1895): 391.Jade (MOA)
"A Tuscan Shrine" Scribner's (travel essay; January 1895) (MOA)

1896-1897 Writes The Decoration of Houses with Ogden Codman. It is published in December 1897 and sells surprisingly well. Meets Walter Berry again after a 14-year break in their friendship; Berry helps with the final revision of The Decoration of Houses. 4 December 1897. The Decoration of Houses. (Scribner's)

1898-1899 Recurrent illnesses throughout the 1890s, including nausea and spells of bronchitis and other respiratory infections, lead Edith to treatment in Philadelphia under Dr. George McClellan. "The One Grief." Scribner's Magazine 24 (July 1898): 90.
"Phaedra"Scribner's Magazine 23 (Jan. 1898): 68.

1899 The Whartons move to Washington, D. C., for four months before beginning their summer travel with French novelist and critic Paul Bourget and his wife in northern Italy and Switzerland. In the fall, seeking a different climate as a possible cure for Edith's illnesses, they visit Lenox in western Massachusetts. 25 March. The Greater Inclination (stories)(Scribner's)

1900 Edith and Teddy Wharton travel to England and Paris, where they stay for several weeks and visit Edith's ailing mother. Travel through northern Italy helps Edith to gather material for her historical novel, The Valley of Decision, which she continues to write after returning to Lenox from August to October. After receiving both criticism and praise from Henry James for "The Line of Least Resistance," she withdraws the story from the volume Crucial Instances. The Touchstone (Scribner's Magazine, March-April; published by Scribner's in book form on 28 April.)
20 August. A Gift from the Grave (London: John Murray)

1901 The Whartons purchase 113 acres near Lee, Massachusetts.
28 June. EW's mother dies in Paris, leaving EW a trust fund. EW's total income from various trusts is about $22,000 per year. 30 March. Crucial Instances (stories) (Scribner's)
"Mould and Vase." Atlantic Monthly 88 (Sept. 1901): 343.

1902
Translates Hermann Sudermann's play Es Lebe das Leben (The Joy of Living)

The Whartons move into The Mount, the home they have built in western Massachusetts. The name derives from the Long Island home of EW's ancestor Ebenezer Stevens.
1 March. The Valley of Decision (Scribner's)
"The Lady's Maid's Bell" (Scribner's Magazine, 1902)
"The Mission of Jane" (Harper's Monthly, 1902)
"The Reckoning" (Harper's Monthly, 1902)
"The Quicksand" (Harpers Monthly, 1902)
"Artemis to Actaeon." Scribner's Magazine 31 (June 1902): 661-62.
"The Bread of Angels." Harper's Magazine 105 (Sept. 1902): 583-85.
"Uses." Scribner's Magazine 31 (Feb. 1902): 180.
"Vesalius in Zante. (1564)" North American Review 175 (Nov. 1902): 625-31.

1903

Tours Italy with Edward, traveling from Rome through Tuscany and Lombardy, part of her research for a series of articles that will appear in The Century and later as Italian Villas and Their Gardens.

Meets art critic Bernard Berenson.

Rides in an automobile for the first time.

24 October. Sanctuary (Scribner's)
"The Dilettante" (Harper's Monthly, 1903)
"A Venetian Night's Entertainment" (Scribner's, 1903)
"A Torchbearer." Scribner's Magazine 33 (April 1903): 504-05.

1904
Purchases her first automobile (Panhard-Levassor) and with Edward travels to the south of France.

Visits Henry James in England and returns to The Mount in the spring.

Undertakes an intense schedule of writing every morning to finish The House of Mirth in time for its serial publication; completes the work in March 1905.
30 April. The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (Scribner's)
"The Descent of Man" (Scribner's Magazine, 1904)

"The Other Two" (Collier's Weekly, 1904)

"Expiation" (Cosmopolitan, 1908)

"The Letter" (Harper's Monthly, 1904)

"The Last Asset" (Scribner's Magazine, 1904)

"The Pot-Boiler" (Scribner's Magazine, 1904)

2 November. Italian Villas and Their Gardens (Scribner's)

1905 14 October. The House of Mirth (Scribner's)
"The Best Man" (Collier's, 1905)
29 April. Italian Backgrounds (Scribner's)

1906 "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (Scribner's Magazine, 1906)
"In Trust" (Appleton's Booklovers Magazine, 1906)

1907 2 March. Madame de Treymes (Scribner's)
19 October. The Fruit of the Tree (Scribner's)

1908 3 October. The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (Scribner's)
"The Pretext" (Scribner's Magazine, 1908)

"The Verdict" (Scribner's Magazine, 1908)

The Bolted Door (Scribner's Magazine, 1908)

10 October. A Motor-Flight Through France. (Scribner's)
"Life" Atlantic Monthly 102 (Oct. 1908): 501-04.
"Moonrise Over Tyringham." Century Magazine 76 (July 1908): 356-57.
"The Old Pole Star." Scribner's Magazine 43 (Jan. 1908): 68.

1909

Summer. Affair with Morton Fullerton (Benstock 213, 474). Kenneth Price and Phyllis McBride date the affair from the spring of 1908 (684).

Writes "Ogrin the Hermit."

Edward Wharton admits to embezzling $50,000 from EW's trust funds but later makes restitution.

"His Father's Son" (Scribner's Magazine, 1909)

"The Daunt Diana" (Scribner's Magazine, 1909)

"The Debt" (Scribner's Magazine, 1909)

"Full Circle" (Scribner's, 1909)
"All Souls." Scribner's Magazine 45 (Jan. 1909): 22-23.(poem)
"Ogrin the Hermit." Atlantic Monthly 104 (Dec. 1909): 844-48
17 April. Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse (Scribner's)

1910

Moves into an apartment at 53 Rue de Varenne and sells her New York houses.

Begins writing Ethan Frome.

Travels to England in March to see Henry James.

21 October. Tales of Men and Ghosts (Scribner's)
"The Legend" (Scribner's, 1910)
"The Eyes" (Scribner's, 1910)
"The Blond Beast "(Scribner's, 1910)
"Afterward" (Century Magazine, 1910)
"The Letters" (Century Magazine, 1910)
"The Comrade." Atlantic Monthly 106 (Dec. 1910): 785-87.

1911
With William Dean Howells, promotes Henry James for the Nobel Prize, although the attempt is unsuccessful. 30 September. Ethan Frome (Scribner)
"Summer Afternoon (Bodiam Castle, Sussex)." Scribner's Magazine 49 (Mar. 1911): 277-78.

1912 15 November. The Reef (D. Appleton)
"Pomegranate Seed." Scribner's Magazine 51 (Mar. 1912): p284-91

1913

16 April. A Paris tribunal awards EW a divorce from Edward Wharton.

April.Travels in Sicily with Walter Berry.

29 May. Sees the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps in Paris.

December. Arrives in New York for the wedding of her niece, Beatrix Jones.

18 October. The Custom of the Country (Scribner's)

1914

March. Drives through Algeria and Tunisia.

July.Tours Spain with Walter Berry and sees the cave paintings at Altamira.

Visits England and sees Henry James at Rye.

September. Returns to Paris and establishes the American Hostels for Refugees, raising $100,000 in the first 12 months.

1915
Visits the Argonne and Verdun and tours hospitals. Publishes articles in Scribner's magazine; these are later collected in Fighting France. 24 October. Fighting France from Dunquerque to Belforte (Scribner's)
"Battle Sleep." Century Magazine 90 (Sept. 1915): 736.
"The Hymn of the Lusitania." New York Herald, 7 May 1915: 1. (text not available)
"The Great Blue Tent." New York Times, 25 Aug. 1915: 10. (text not available)

1916 16 October. Xingu and Other Stories (1916); includes "Bunner Sisters" (Scribner's)

1917 2 July. Summer (D. Appleton)

1918 9 December. The Marne. (D. Appleton)
"'On Active Service'; American Expeditionary Force (R. S., August 12, 1918)." Scribner's Magazine 64 (Nov. 1918): 619.

1919 29 August. French Ways and their Meaning (D. Appleton)
"You and You; to the American private in the great war." Scribner's Magazine 65 (Feb. 1919): 152-153.
"With the Tide." Saturday Evening Post 191, 29 Mar. 1919: 8.

1920 15 October. The Age of Innocence (D. Appleton)
24 September. In Morocco (1920) (Scribner's)

1921

1922
Death of EW's dear friend Sara Norton (Lewis 447).
Death of EW's brother Harry at Fontainebleau (Lewis 447).
21 July. The Glimpses of the Moon (D. Appleton)

1923
9 June. EW sails to New York on the Mauretania (Lewis 451).
20 June. Receives an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Yale University, the first woman so honored by Yale (Lewis 453).
26 June. EW sails back to Franceon the Berengaria and returns to Pavillon Colombe (Lewis 453).
Finished "The Young Gentleman" and "The Spark"; began work on The Mother's Recompense (Lewis 456).

7 September. A Son at the Front

1924 16 May. Old New York (D. Appleton)

1925
March. Sinclair Lewis visits EW at Hyères (Lewis 466).

July. F. Scott Fitzgerald visits EW at Pavillon Colombe, a famously disastrous visit (Lewis 468).
25 April. The Mother's Recompense (D. Appleton)
9 October. The Writing of Fiction (essays) (Scribner's)

1926
Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters (Lewis 460).

End of March. EW charters the yacht Osprey and takes a 10-week cruise through the Aegean with Beatrix and Max Farrand, Pearsall Smith, and Daisy Chanler (Lewis 469).

September. Travels to the Bergamesque in northern Italy with Walter Berry (Lewis 470).
23 April. Here and Beyond (stories) (D. Appleton)
23 October. Twelve Poems (London: Medici Society)

1927
Winter. Negotiates for the purchase of Ste. Claire le Château, which will become her winter home (Lewis 472).

Continues to work on a novel,"The Keys of Heaven," about the Praslin murder case in the 1840s; the book is never completed (Lewis 473).

12 October. Walter Berry dies of a stroke (Lewis 477).

End of October. EW begins work on The Children.

Attempts by literary figures in the US to promote EW for the Nobel Prize fail; Henri Bergson is awarded the prize instead

13 May. Twilight Sleep (D. Appleton) (Lewis gives the date as "mid-June").

1928
End of January. Finishes The Children (Lewis 482); begins Hudson River Bracketed.
7 February. Teddy Wharton dies (Lewis 480), leaving his estate to his trained nurse.

Spends her annual fortnight in England visiting Robert Norton at Lamb House (Lewis 483).
EW hears that the stage version of The Age of Innocence, adapted by Margaret Ayer Barnes, with Katharine Cornell as Ellen Olenska,is a great success (Lewis 487).
1 September. The Children (D. Appleton); becomes the September selection for the Book-of-the-Month Club (Lewis 484).

1929
Received the Gold Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Lewis 460).
EW falls seriously ill with fever and does no writing for four months (Lewis 490).
22 October. Finishes Hudson River Bracketed, of which she says, "I am sure it is my best book" (Lewis 490).
8 November. Hudson River Bracketed (D. Appleton) (The work appeared serially in The Delineator--Lewis 492).

1930
25 January. Begins writing The Gods Arrive (Benstock 421).
Writes "Pomegranate Seed" near the end of the year (Lewis 495).
Autumn. Visits Bernard Berenson at I Tatti (Lewis 496).
Before Christmas. Aldous Huxley, his wife Maria, and Cyril and Jean Connolly visit EW at Ste. Claire (Lewis 497).
21 October. Certain People (stories)(D. Appleton)

1931
March. Art critic Kenneth Clark visits EW at Ste. Claire, initiating a friendship betweeen the two.

June. Meets Leon Edel, the biographer of Henry James (Lewis 501).
July. Visits England (Lewis 499); sits at luncheon with H. G. Wells.
Renews her friendship with Morton Fullerton (Lewis 500).

1932
January. Completes The Gods Arrive (Lewis 501); begins work on her autobiography, A Backward Glance.
Writes a story, "Joy in the House," that is turned down by many editors because of its bitter themes (Lewis 506).

May. Visits Rome for a two-week stay (Lewis 509). Becomes more interested in Roman Catholicism, although she apparently never converts to this religion (Lewis 511).
16 September. The Gods Arrive (D. Appleton).

1933
Threatens to sue The Ladies' Home Journal when the magazine wants to reduce the agreed-upon payment of $25,000 for A Backward Glance; the magazine backs down and pays the price (Lewis 507).

Begins work on The Buccaneers (Lewis 507).

EW's housekeeper of nearly 50 years, Catherine Gross, dies after suffering senile dementia for a period of time (Lewis 514).

EW takes a three-week trip to Holland (Benstock 434).

Praises Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and George Santayana's The Last Puritan (Lewis 520).
17 March. Human Nature (stories)(D. Appleton)

1934
Novelist Louis Bromfield visits EW at Ste. Claire.
September. EW tours Scotland and visits London.
Visits Rome.

27 April. A Backward Glance (autobiography) (Appleton-Century)

1935
11 April. EW suffers a stroke (Lewis 519) but is walking and riding in automobiles by the end of May.

Lewis dates "Beatrice Palmato" from the summer of 1935 and says that it was "planned as the first story in a volume to be called 'The Powers of Darkness'" (526).

Zoe Akins's version of The Old Maid is a success at the Empire Theater in New York; it wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Lewis 529).

1936 First week of January. Owen and Donald Davis's adaptation of Ethan Frome opens in Philadelphia, wiht Raymond Massey as Ethan, Pauline Lord as Zeena, and Ruth Gordon as Mattie Silver (Lewis 529). The World Over (Appleton-Century) (stories)

1937
Last completed story, "All Souls," is sent to Wharton's agent in February 1937 and is published posthumously (Lewis 523).

1 June. Has another stroke while traveling back to St. Brice.

11 August. Wharton dies at 6 in the evening (Lewis 531) and is buried at Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, France.
Ghosts (Appleton-Century)

1938 16 September. The Buccaneers (Appleton-Century)
Fast and Loose (1977)

Thanks to Dr. Jamie Barlowe of the University of Toledo for corrections and additions to the information on Wharton's publishers.

Other Wharton biography links:

Edith Wharton. A biographical sketch from the Edith Wharton Restoration at The Mount.
Edith Wharton's World from the Smithsonian.
Edith Wharton: A Life in Pictures and Text for undergraduate students.
Edith Wharton: An Overview with Biocritical Sources. Dee Shidler's popular site at geocities.com
Edith Wharton at the Domestic Goddesses Site

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Year	Life	Works Note: Titles in smaller type are poems. A single date (day and month) indicates the first date of book publication for the volume mentioned.
1862	24 January. Edith Newbold Jones is born in New York City to Lucretia Rhinelander Jones and George Frederic Jones. She is the youngest and only girl of three children. Her two brothers, Frederic (16) and Harry (11), are much older than she. 20 April. Edith is baptized in Grace Church, New York City.
1866-1867	The Jones family sets sail for Europe and spend the first year in Rome. They also travel through Spain.
1868-1870	The Jones family lives in Paris at 61 avenue Josephine. In the summer of 1870, they move on to Bad Wildbad in Germany, where Edith falls dangerously ill of typhoid fever. By the end of 1870, the family settles in Florence. At about this time, her portrait is painted by Edward Harrison May. Edith Wharton at age 5 by Edward Harrison May. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery.
1872	June. The family returns to their New York house on West 23rd Street, after which they move to Newport, Rhode Island, for the summer, like many wealthy New York families.
1873-1875	During this period, Edith studies French and German as well as other subjects; as was the custom for well-to-do girls, she is tutored at home.
1876	Begins to write Fast and Loose, a novella of 30,000 words that she finishes in January 1877.
1878-1879	Verses, a collection of her poems, is privately printed; her mother pays for the printing. Among those who see the poems are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Dean Howells, editor of the Atlantic Monthly. In 1879, she is presented to society according to the customs of the day.	Verses (1878)
1880	Becomes engaged to Henry Leyden Stevens, whose mother, Mrs. Paran Stevens, opposes the match. Five of Edith's poems appear in the Atlantic Monthly, and two appear in the New York World. Image reproduced from R. W. B. Lewis, Edith Wharton: A Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1975; Fromm International Publishing, 1985.	Aeropagus."Atlantic Monthly 45 (Mar. 1880): 335. "A Failure" Atlantic Monthly 45 (April 1880): 464-65. The Parting Day."Atlantic Monthly 45 (Feb. 1880): 194. "The Parting Day" (MOA) "Patience"Atlantic Monthly 45 (April 1880): 548-49. "Wants"Atlantic Monthly 45 (May 1880): 599.
1881	Travels to southern France with her family.
1882	March. Father dies in Cannes. Although her engagement to Henry Stevens has been announced, it is later broken off at the insistence of his mother, and Edith goes to Paris with her mother. Stevens dies in 1885, and his mother inherits the large trust fund that would have been his had he lived.
1883	Edith spends the summer in Bar Harbor, Maine. She meets Walter Berry, who will become a close friend and whom she will later call "the love of all my life," and her future husband, Edward ("Teddy") Wharton.
1884-1888	29 April 1885. Edith marries Edward Wharton in New York City. The couple live in Newport and spend several months in Europe each spring. During this period, Wharton continues her voracious reading and intensive study of art, science, philosophy, and literature. In 1888, the Whartons travel to the Aegean on a four-month cruise.
1889	The Whartons return to New York City.	"Euryalus."Atlantic Monthly 64 (Dec. 1889): 761.Euryalus "Happiness" Scribner's Magazine 6 (Dec. 1889): 715.Happiness "The Last Giustianini" Scribner's Magazine 6 (Oct. 1889): 405-06. The Last Giustiniani
1890	Continues to write, but her letters describe her suffering from an unexplained illness. A story, "Mrs. Manstey's View," is accepted for publication in Scribner's, the first of many she will publish in that magazine and others.
1891	The Whartons buy a house on Fourth Avenue (later 884 Park Avenue) in New York City.	"Botticelli's Madonna in the Louvre." Scribner's Magazine 9 (Jan. 1891): 74.Botticelli's Madonna In The Louvre "The Sonnet."Century Magazine 43 (Nov. 1891): 113.The Sonnet "The Tomb of Ilaria Giunigi."Scribner's Magazine 9 (Feb. 1891): 156 The Tomb Of Ilaria Giunigi "Mrs. Manstey's View," Scribner's (July 1891)
1892	Writes "Bunner Sisters," a long story that is not published until 1916 (in Xingu).	"Two Backgrounds" (LA VIERGE AU DONATEUR. and MONA LISA) Scribner's Magazine 12 (Nov. 1892): 550. Two Backgrounds (MOA)
1893	The Whartons purchase Land's End, a house in Newport, and hire Ogden Codman as the interior designer. Edith works closely with Codman on the design for remodeling the house.	"Chartres" Scribner's Magazine 14 (Sept. 1893): 287.Chartres "Experience." Scribner's Magazine 13 (Jan. 1893): 91.
1894-1895	Travel through Tuscany. During her time in Italy, EW visits Violet Paget ("Vernon Lee"). She also identifies a group of terra-cotta sculptures as being from the sixteenth-century school of the Robbias, rather than a work of the seventeenth century. Her essay chronicling the discovery is published in Scribners ("A Tuscan Shrine," [January 1895]).	"An Autumn Sunset" Scribner's Magazine 16 (Oct. 1894): 419. An Autumn Sunset "Life"Scribner's Magazine 15 (June 1894): 739. Life (MOA)
1895		"Jade" Century Magazine 49 (Jan. 1895): 391.Jade (MOA) "A Tuscan Shrine" Scribner's (travel essay; January 1895) (MOA)
1896-1897	Writes The Decoration of Houses with Ogden Codman. It is published in December 1897 and sells surprisingly well. Meets Walter Berry again after a 14-year break in their friendship; Berry helps with the final revision of The Decoration of Houses.	4 December 1897. The Decoration of Houses. (Scribner's)
1898-1899	Recurrent illnesses throughout the 1890s, including nausea and spells of bronchitis and other respiratory infections, lead Edith to treatment in Philadelphia under Dr. George McClellan.	"The One Grief." Scribner's Magazine 24 (July 1898): 90. "Phaedra"Scribner's Magazine 23 (Jan. 1898): 68.
1899	The Whartons move to Washington, D. C., for four months before beginning their summer travel with French novelist and critic Paul Bourget and his wife in northern Italy and Switzerland. In the fall, seeking a different climate as a possible cure for Edith's illnesses, they visit Lenox in western Massachusetts.	25 March. The Greater Inclination (stories)(Scribner's)
1900	Edith and Teddy Wharton travel to England and Paris, where they stay for several weeks and visit Edith's ailing mother. Travel through northern Italy helps Edith to gather material for her historical novel, The Valley of Decision, which she continues to write after returning to Lenox from August to October. After receiving both criticism and praise from Henry James for "The Line of Least Resistance," she withdraws the story from the volume Crucial Instances.	The Touchstone (Scribner's Magazine, March-April; published by Scribner's in book form on 28 April.) 20 August. A Gift from the Grave (London: John Murray)
1901	The Whartons purchase 113 acres near Lee, Massachusetts. 28 June. EW's mother dies in Paris, leaving EW a trust fund. EW's total income from various trusts is about $22,000 per year.	30 March. Crucial Instances (stories) (Scribner's) "Mould and Vase." Atlantic Monthly 88 (Sept. 1901): 343.
1902	Translates Hermann Sudermann's play Es Lebe das Leben (The Joy of Living) The Whartons move into The Mount, the home they have built in western Massachusetts. The name derives from the Long Island home of EW's ancestor Ebenezer Stevens.	1 March. The Valley of Decision (Scribner's) "The Lady's Maid's Bell" (Scribner's Magazine, 1902) "The Mission of Jane" (Harper's Monthly, 1902) "The Reckoning" (Harper's Monthly, 1902) "The Quicksand" (Harpers Monthly, 1902) "Artemis to Actaeon." Scribner's Magazine 31 (June 1902): 661-62. "The Bread of Angels." Harper's Magazine 105 (Sept. 1902): 583-85. "Uses." Scribner's Magazine 31 (Feb. 1902): 180. "Vesalius in Zante. (1564)" North American Review 175 (Nov. 1902): 625-31.
1903	Tours Italy with Edward, traveling from Rome through Tuscany and Lombardy, part of her research for a series of articles that will appear in The Century and later as Italian Villas and Their Gardens. Meets art critic Bernard Berenson. Rides in an automobile for the first time.	24 October. Sanctuary (Scribner's) "The Dilettante" (Harper's Monthly, 1903) "A Venetian Night's Entertainment" (Scribner's, 1903) "A Torchbearer." Scribner's Magazine 33 (April 1903): 504-05.
1904	Purchases her first automobile (Panhard-Levassor) and with Edward travels to the south of France. Visits Henry James in England and returns to The Mount in the spring. Undertakes an intense schedule of writing every morning to finish The House of Mirth in time for its serial publication; completes the work in March 1905.	30 April. The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (Scribner's) "The Descent of Man" (Scribner's Magazine, 1904) "The Other Two" (Collier's Weekly, 1904) "Expiation" (Cosmopolitan, 1908) "The Letter" (Harper's Monthly, 1904) "The Last Asset" (Scribner's Magazine, 1904) "The Pot-Boiler" (Scribner's Magazine, 1904) 2 November. Italian Villas and Their Gardens (Scribner's)
1905		14 October. The House of Mirth (Scribner's) "The Best Man" (Collier's, 1905) 29 April. Italian Backgrounds (Scribner's)
1906		"The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (Scribner's Magazine, 1906) "In Trust" (Appleton's Booklovers Magazine, 1906)
1907		2 March. Madame de Treymes (Scribner's) 19 October. The Fruit of the Tree (Scribner's)
1908		3 October. The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (Scribner's) "The Pretext" (Scribner's Magazine, 1908) "The Verdict" (Scribner's Magazine, 1908) The Bolted Door (Scribner's Magazine, 1908) 10 October. A Motor-Flight Through France. (Scribner's) "Life" Atlantic Monthly 102 (Oct. 1908): 501-04. "Moonrise Over Tyringham." Century Magazine 76 (July 1908): 356-57. "The Old Pole Star." Scribner's Magazine 43 (Jan. 1908): 68.
1909	Summer. Affair with Morton Fullerton (Benstock 213, 474). Kenneth Price and Phyllis McBride date the affair from the spring of 1908 (684). Writes "Ogrin the Hermit." Edward Wharton admits to embezzling $50,000 from EW's trust funds but later makes restitution.	"His Father's Son" (Scribner's Magazine, 1909) "The Daunt Diana" (Scribner's Magazine, 1909) "The Debt" (Scribner's Magazine, 1909) "Full Circle" (Scribner's, 1909) "All Souls." Scribner's Magazine 45 (Jan. 1909): 22-23.(poem) "Ogrin the Hermit." Atlantic Monthly 104 (Dec. 1909): 844-48 17 April. Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse (Scribner's)
1910	Moves into an apartment at 53 Rue de Varenne and sells her New York houses. Begins writing Ethan Frome. Travels to England in March to see Henry James.	21 October. Tales of Men and Ghosts (Scribner's) "The Legend" (Scribner's, 1910) "The Eyes" (Scribner's, 1910) "The Blond Beast "(Scribner's, 1910) "Afterward" (Century Magazine, 1910) "The Letters" (Century Magazine, 1910) "The Comrade." Atlantic Monthly 106 (Dec. 1910): 785-87.
1911	With William Dean Howells, promotes Henry James for the Nobel Prize, although the attempt is unsuccessful.	30 September. Ethan Frome (Scribner) "Summer Afternoon (Bodiam Castle, Sussex)." Scribner's Magazine 49 (Mar. 1911): 277-78.
1912		15 November. The Reef (D. Appleton) "Pomegranate Seed." Scribner's Magazine 51 (Mar. 1912): p284-91
1913	16 April. A Paris tribunal awards EW a divorce from Edward Wharton. April.Travels in Sicily with Walter Berry. 29 May. Sees the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps in Paris. December. Arrives in New York for the wedding of her niece, Beatrix Jones.	18 October. The Custom of the Country (Scribner's)
1914	March. Drives through Algeria and Tunisia. July.Tours Spain with Walter Berry and sees the cave paintings at Altamira. Visits England and sees Henry James at Rye. September. Returns to Paris and establishes the American Hostels for Refugees, raising $100,000 in the first 12 months.
1915	Visits the Argonne and Verdun and tours hospitals. Publishes articles in Scribner's magazine; these are later collected in Fighting France.	24 October. Fighting France from Dunquerque to Belforte (Scribner's) "Battle Sleep." Century Magazine 90 (Sept. 1915): 736. "The Hymn of the Lusitania." New York Herald, 7 May 1915: 1. (text not available) "The Great Blue Tent." New York Times, 25 Aug. 1915: 10. (text not available)
1916		16 October. Xingu and Other Stories (1916); includes "Bunner Sisters" (Scribner's)
1917		2 July. Summer (D. Appleton)
1918		9 December. The Marne. (D. Appleton) "'On Active Service'; American Expeditionary Force (R. S., August 12, 1918)." Scribner's Magazine 64 (Nov. 1918): 619.
1919		29 August. French Ways and their Meaning (D. Appleton) "You and You; to the American private in the great war." Scribner's Magazine 65 (Feb. 1919): 152-153. "With the Tide." Saturday Evening Post 191, 29 Mar. 1919: 8.
1920		15 October. The Age of Innocence (D. Appleton) 24 September. In Morocco (1920) (Scribner's)
1921
1922	Death of EW's dear friend Sara Norton (Lewis 447). Death of EW's brother Harry at Fontainebleau (Lewis 447).	21 July. The Glimpses of the Moon (D. Appleton)
1923	9 June. EW sails to New York on the Mauretania (Lewis 451). 20 June. Receives an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Yale University, the first woman so honored by Yale (Lewis 453). 26 June. EW sails back to Franceon the Berengaria and returns to Pavillon Colombe (Lewis 453). Finished "The Young Gentleman" and "The Spark"; began work on The Mother's Recompense (Lewis 456).	7 September. A Son at the Front
1924		16 May. Old New York (D. Appleton)
1925	March. Sinclair Lewis visits EW at Hyères (Lewis 466). July. F. Scott Fitzgerald visits EW at Pavillon Colombe, a famously disastrous visit (Lewis 468).	25 April. The Mother's Recompense (D. Appleton) 9 October. The Writing of Fiction (essays) (Scribner's)
1926	Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters (Lewis 460). End of March. EW charters the yacht Osprey and takes a 10-week cruise through the Aegean with Beatrix and Max Farrand, Pearsall Smith, and Daisy Chanler (Lewis 469). September. Travels to the Bergamesque in northern Italy with Walter Berry (Lewis 470).	23 April. Here and Beyond (stories) (D. Appleton) 23 October. Twelve Poems (London: Medici Society)
1927	Winter. Negotiates for the purchase of Ste. Claire le Château, which will become her winter home (Lewis 472). Continues to work on a novel,"The Keys of Heaven," about the Praslin murder case in the 1840s; the book is never completed (Lewis 473). 12 October. Walter Berry dies of a stroke (Lewis 477). End of October. EW begins work on The Children. Attempts by literary figures in the US to promote EW for the Nobel Prize fail; Henri Bergson is awarded the prize instead	13 May. Twilight Sleep (D. Appleton) (Lewis gives the date as "mid-June").
1928	End of January. Finishes The Children (Lewis 482); begins Hudson River Bracketed. 7 February. Teddy Wharton dies (Lewis 480), leaving his estate to his trained nurse. Spends her annual fortnight in England visiting Robert Norton at Lamb House (Lewis 483). EW hears that the stage version of The Age of Innocence, adapted by Margaret Ayer Barnes, with Katharine Cornell as Ellen Olenska,is a great success (Lewis 487).	1 September. The Children (D. Appleton); becomes the September selection for the Book-of-the-Month Club (Lewis 484).
1929	Received the Gold Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Lewis 460). EW falls seriously ill with fever and does no writing for four months (Lewis 490). 22 October. Finishes Hudson River Bracketed, of which she says, "I am sure it is my best book" (Lewis 490).	8 November. Hudson River Bracketed (D. Appleton) (The work appeared serially in The Delineator--Lewis 492).
1930	25 January. Begins writing The Gods Arrive (Benstock 421). Writes "Pomegranate Seed" near the end of the year (Lewis 495). Autumn. Visits Bernard Berenson at I Tatti (Lewis 496). Before Christmas. Aldous Huxley, his wife Maria, and Cyril and Jean Connolly visit EW at Ste. Claire (Lewis 497).	21 October. Certain People (stories)(D. Appleton)
1931	March. Art critic Kenneth Clark visits EW at Ste. Claire, initiating a friendship betweeen the two. June. Meets Leon Edel, the biographer of Henry James (Lewis 501). July. Visits England (Lewis 499); sits at luncheon with H. G. Wells. Renews her friendship with Morton Fullerton (Lewis 500).
1932	January. Completes The Gods Arrive (Lewis 501); begins work on her autobiography, A Backward Glance. Writes a story, "Joy in the House," that is turned down by many editors because of its bitter themes (Lewis 506). May. Visits Rome for a two-week stay (Lewis 509). Becomes more interested in Roman Catholicism, although she apparently never converts to this religion (Lewis 511).	16 September. The Gods Arrive (D. Appleton).
1933	Threatens to sue The Ladies' Home Journal when the magazine wants to reduce the agreed-upon payment of $25,000 for A Backward Glance; the magazine backs down and pays the price (Lewis 507). Begins work on The Buccaneers (Lewis 507). EW's housekeeper of nearly 50 years, Catherine Gross, dies after suffering senile dementia for a period of time (Lewis 514). EW takes a three-week trip to Holland (Benstock 434). Praises Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and George Santayana's The Last Puritan (Lewis 520).	17 March. Human Nature (stories)(D. Appleton)
1934	Novelist Louis Bromfield visits EW at Ste. Claire. September. EW tours Scotland and visits London. Visits Rome.	27 April. A Backward Glance (autobiography) (Appleton-Century)
1935	11 April. EW suffers a stroke (Lewis 519) but is walking and riding in automobiles by the end of May. Lewis dates "Beatrice Palmato" from the summer of 1935 and says that it was "planned as the first story in a volume to be called 'The Powers of Darkness'" (526). Zoe Akins's version of The Old Maid is a success at the Empire Theater in New York; it wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Lewis 529).
1936	First week of January. Owen and Donald Davis's adaptation of Ethan Frome opens in Philadelphia, wiht Raymond Massey as Ethan, Pauline Lord as Zeena, and Ruth Gordon as Mattie Silver (Lewis 529).	The World Over (Appleton-Century) (stories)
1937	Last completed story, "All Souls," is sent to Wharton's agent in February 1937 and is published posthumously (Lewis 523). 1 June. Has another stroke while traveling back to St. Brice. 11 August. Wharton dies at 6 in the evening (Lewis 531) and is buried at Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, France.	Ghosts (Appleton-Century)
1938		16 September. The Buccaneers (Appleton-Century) Fast and Loose (1977)