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Beach, Joseph W. “The Well-made Novel: Sedgwick, Wharton.” The Twentieth-Century Novel. New York: Century, 1932.

Björkman, Edwin. “The Greater Edith Wharton.” Voices of To-Morrow: Critical Studies of the New Spirit in Literature. New York and London: M. Kennerley, 1913. 290-304.

Boas, Ralph P., and Katherine Burton. “Edith Wharton.” Social Backgrounds of American Literature. Boston: Little, Brown, 1933. 263-65.

Boynton, Henry W. “Mrs. Wharton’s Manner.” Nation 97 (30 Oct. 1913): 404-05.

Boynton, Percy H. “Edith Wharton.” A History of American Literature. Boston: Ginn, 1919. 428-29.

Boynton, Percy H. “Personality and Fate in Fiction.” Literature and American Life, for Students of American Literature. Boston, Ginn, 1936. 785-87.

Boynton, Percy Holmes. Some Contemporary Americans : The Personal Equation in Literature. The University of Chicago Press, 1924.

Brown, E. K. Edith Wharton, case critique. Paris: E. Droz, 1935.

Burdett, Osbert. “Contemporary American Authors: Edith Wharton.” London Mercury 13 (Nov. 1925): 52-61.

Burdett, Osbert. “Edith Wharton.” Contemporary American Authors. Ed. John C. Squire et al. New York: Holt, 1928. 151-76.

Canby, Henry S. “Mrs. Wharton’s The Age of Innocence.” Definitions. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922. 212-16.

Canby, Henry. S. “Edith Wharton.” Saturday Review of Literature 16 (Aug. 21, 1937): 6-7.

Carroll, Eleanor. “Edith Wharton.” Delineator 120: (Jan. 1932): 4. [interview]

Chanler, Margaret Terry. “Edith Wharton in Paris.” Autumn. 109-13.

Chanler, Margaret Terry. “Edith Wharton’s Aegean Cruise.” Autumn in the Valley. Boston: Little, Brown, 1936. 209-42.

Chanler, Margaret Terry. “Friendship for Henry James.” Autumn. 111-13.

Chanler, Margaret Terry. “Edith Wharton.” Roman Spring : Memoirs. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1934. 122-23.

Cleaton, Irene, and Allen Cleaton. “Edith Wharton.” Books and Battles: American Literature (1920-1930). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. 248-50 and passim.

Collins, Joseph. “Edith Wharton.” Taking the Literary Pulse; Psychological Studies of Life and Letters. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924.48-55.

Cooke, Delmar G. [“Edith Wharton.”] William Dean Howells: A Critical Study. New York: Dutton: 1922. 138, 144-45.

Cooper, Frederic T. “Edith Wharton.” Some American Story Tellers. New York: Holt, 1911. 168-95.

Cross, Wilbur L. “Edith Wharton.” Bookman 63 (Aug. 1926): 641-46.

Cross, Wilbur L. “The Great Novelist of the American Social Scene.” World Review 8 (20 May 1929): 234.

Cross, Wilbur L. Edith Wharton. New York: Appleton, 1926.

Davis, Lavinia. A Bibliography of the Writings of Edith Wharton. Portland, ME, 1933.

Dickinson, Thomas H. “Edith Wharton.” The Making of American Literature. New York: Appleton, 1932. 653-55.

Dwight, H. G. “Edith Wharton.” Putnam’s Magazine 3 (Feb. 1908): 590-96.

Edgar, Pelham. “Edith Wharton: Two Conflicting Estimates of her Art.” Current Opinion 58 (Apr. 1951): 272.­

Edgar, Pelham. ”Edith Wharton.” National Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York: White, 1910. Vol. 14, 80-81.

Edgar, Pelham. ”Edith Wharton.” National Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York: White, 1927. Current Vol. B, 32-33.

Edgar, Pelham. “Edith Wharton.” The Art of the Novel from 1700 to the Present Time. New York: Macmillan, 1933. 196-205.

Follett, Helen, and Wilson Follett. Some Modern Novelists; Appreciations and Estimates. New York,: H. Holt and Co., 1918. 291-311.

G., F. J. “Her Use of the Epigram in The Greater Inclination.” Book Buyer 18 (June 1899): 395-96.

Garland, Hamlin. “Edith Wharton’s Home.” Afternoon Neighbors. New York: Macmillan, 1934. 200-17.

Gerould, Gordon Hall, and Charles Bayly. Contemporary Short Stories. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927.

Gerould, Katharine F. Edith Wharton: A Critical Study. New York: Appleton, 1922. 11 pp.

Gilbertson, Catherine. ““Mrs. Wharton, ‘The Agate Lamp within Thy Hand’.” Century 119 (1929): 112-19.

Gilman, Lawrence. “The Book of the Month: Mrs. Wharton Reverts to Shaw.” North American Review 206 (Aug. 1917): 304-07.

Green, Paul, and Elizabeth L. Green. “Edith Wharton.” Contemporary American Literature. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1927, 9-11.

Hackett, Francis. “Mrs. Wharton’s Art.” The New Republic 10 (10 Feb. 1917): 50-52; repr. in Horizons: A Book of Criticism. New York: Huebsch, 1918. 31-36. [rev. of Xingu]

Hackett, Francis. “Mrs. Wharton’s Limitations.” The New Republic 11 (14 July 1917): 311-12; repr. in Horizons. New York: Huebsch, 1918. 37-42. [rev. of Summer]

Hansl, Eva V. B. “Parents in Modern Fiction.” Bookman 62 (Sep. 1925): 21-27.

Harper, C. Armitage. American Ghost Stories. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.

Hartwick, Harry. “Vanity Fair.” The Foreground of American Fiction. New York: American Book, 1934.

Hatcher, Harlan H. “Edith Wharton.” Creating the Modern American Novel. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935. 89-94.

Herrick, Robert. “Mrs. Wharton’s World.” The New Republic  2 (13 Feb. 1915): 40-42.

Hicks, Granville. “Edith Wharton.” The Great Tradition. New York: Macmillan, 1933. 216-19, 226-27, 237.

Hind, Charles L. ”Edith Wharton.” Authors and I. New York: John Lane, 1921. 306-11.

Huneker, James. “Three Disagreeable Girls.” Forum 52 (Nov. 1914): 772-75. [Part III on Custom; also in Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks (New York: Scribner’s, 1915). 323-28]

Kazin, Alfred. “The Literature of Realism: Edith Wharton.” American Literature and Culture. New York: Ray Long and Richrd R. Smith, 1932. 413-21.

Kazin, Alfred. “The Triumph of Realism: Edith Wharton.” The Novel in English. New York: Richard R. Smith, 1931. 332-38.

Lawrence, Margaret. Helpmeets: Edith Wharton.” The School of Femininity. New York: Stokes, 1936. 256-59. [British: We Write as Women. 1936]

Lewisohn, Ludwig. “Edith Wharton.” Expression in America. New York: Harper, 1932. 465-68.

Loggins, Vernon. “Edith Wharton.” I Hear America. New York: Crowell, 1937. 179-88.

Lovett, Robert Morss. Edith Wharton. New York: R. M. McBride & Company, 1925.

Lubbock, Percy. “The Novels of Edith Wharton.” Quarterly Review 223 (Jan. 1915): 182-201; repr. in Living Age 284 (6 Mar. 1915): 604-16 and Edith Wharton: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Irving Howe. 43-61.   

Mansfield, Katherine. ”The Age of Innocence.” Novels and Novelists. London: Constable, 1930. 307-08.

Marble, Annie R. Edith Wharton.” A Study of the Modern Novel, British and American since 1900. New York: Appleton, 1928. 310-14.

Melish, Lawson McClurg. A Bibliography of the Collected Writings of Edith Wharton. 1927.

Michaud, Régis. The American Novel to-Day; a Social and Psychological Study. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928.

O’Brien, Edward J. “Edith Wharton.” The Advance of the American Short Story. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1923. 202-05.

Oberholtzer, Ellis P. “Mrs. Wharton’s Place in American Letters.” Book News Monthly 26 (Nov. 1907): 175-78.

Overton, Grant M. “Edith Wharton.” The Women Who Make our Novels. New York: Moffat, Yard, 1919. 1-9.

Overton, Grant M. American Nights Entertainment. New York & London: Appleton, 1923. 345-62.

Overton, Grant Martin. “Edith Wharton and the Time Spirit.” Authors of the Day. New York,: George H. Doran Company, 1924. 189-204.

Overton, Grant. M. “Edith Wharton’s Old New York.” Cargoes for Crusoes. New York: Appleton, 1924. 304-13.

Parrington, Vernon L. “Edith Wharton—the Genteel Tradition and the New Plutocracy.” The Beginning of Critical Realism in America, 1860-1920. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1930. 381-82.

Patee, Fred. L. “Edith Wharton.” The Development of the American Short Story. New York: Harper, 1923. 374-75.

Patee, Fred. L. “Edith Wharton.” The New American Literature, 1890-1930. New York: Century, 1930. 249-54.

Pendennis. “The Thinking Heart: An Impression of Mrs. Edith Wharton at Close Range.” Book News Monthly 26 (Nov. 1907): 171-73.

Phelps, William L. “An Appreciation of Edith Wharton.” Delineator 120 (Feb. 1932): 7.

Phelps, William L. The Advance of the English Novel. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1916. 293-96.

Quinn, Arthur H. “Mrs. Wharton as a Writer of Short Stories.” Book News Monthly 26 (Nov. 1907): 179-81.

Quinn, Arthur Hobson. “Edith Wharton.” American Fiction: an Historical and Critical Survey. New York, London,: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1936. 550-81.

Ransome, John Crowe. “Characters and Character: A Note on Fiction.” American Review 6 (Jan. 1936): 271-75.

Rhys, Ernest, and C. A. Dawson Scott. 26 Mystery Stories, Old and New. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1927.

Roberts, R. Ellis. “Edith Wharton.” Bookman (London) 64 (Sept. 1923): 262-64.

Russell, Frances Theresa.  “Edith Wharton’s Use of Imagery.”  The English Journal 21.6 (1932): 452-461.

Russell, Frances Theresa. “Melodramatic Mrs. Wharton.” Sewanee Review 40 (1932): 425-37.

Sargeant, Elizabeth S. “Idealized New England: Mrs. Wharton’s Ethan Frome.” New Republic 3 (8 May 1915): 20-21.

Sedgwick, Henry D. “Mrs. Wharton.” The New American Type. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. 53-56.

Sedgwick, Henry D. “The Novels of Mrs. Wharton.” Atlantic Monthly 98 (Aug. 1906): 217-28.

Sencourt, Robert. “The Poetry of Edith Wharton.” Bookman 73 (July 1931):  478-86.

Sherman, Stuart Pratt. “Edith Wharton: Costuming the Passions.”  The Main Stream. New York: Scribner, 1927. 204-12.

Sholl, Anna M. “The Work of Edith Wharton.” Gunton’s Magazine 25 (Nov. 1903): 426-32.

Silve, Claude, and Robert Norton. Foreword. Benediction. New York, London,: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1936.

Stalmaker, John M., and Fred Eggan. “American Novelists Ranked: A Psychological Study.” English Journal 18 (Apr. 1929): 295-307.

Steel, Erskine. “Fiction and Social Ethics.” South Atlantic Quarterly 5 (July 1906): 254-63. [House of Mirth]

Stocking, Elizabeth L. “Edith Wharton’s Heroines.” Americana 5 (Jan. 1910): 80-87.

Tante, Dilly. “Edith Wharton.” Living Authors. New York: Wilson, 1931. 433-35.

“To Lily Bart.”  Reader 8 (July 1906): 181-84.

Trueblood. Charles K. “Edith Wharton.” Dial  68 (Jan. 1920): 80-91.

Tutwiler, Julia R. “Edith Wharton in New York City.” Women Authors of our Day in their Homes: Personal Descriptions and Interviews. Ed. Francis W. Halsey.  New York: Pott, 1903. 243-47.

Underwood, John Curtis. “Culture and Edith Wharton.” Literature and Insurgency; Ten Studies in Racial Evolution: Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, David Graham Phillips, Stewart Edward White, Winston Churchill, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton and Robert W. Chambers. M. Kennerley, 1914. 346-90.

Van Doren, Carl. “Contemporary American Novelists.” Nation 112 (12 Jan. 1921): 40-41.

Van Doren, Carl. “Edith Wharton.” Contemporary American Novelists: 1900-1920. New York: Macmillan, 1922. 95-104.

Waldstein, Charles. “Social Ideals.” North American Review  182 (June 1906): 840-52; 183 (July 1906): 125-36.  

Wharton, Edith. “The Writing of Ethan Frome.” Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly 11 (1932).

Willcox, Louise C. “Edith Wharton.” Outlook 81 (25 Nov. 1905): 719-24.

Williams, Blanche C. “Edith Wharton.” Our Short Story Writers. New York: Moffat, Yard, 1920. 337-57.

Williams, Blanche Colton. Our Short Story Writers. Moffat, Yard & Company, 1920. Modern American Writers.

Winter, Calvin. “Representative American Story-tellers: Edith Wharton.”  Bookman 33 (May 1911): 302-09.

Woodbridge, Homer E. “Fruit of the Tree and Ibsen’s Rosmersholm.” Nation 85 (5 Dec. 1907): 514.