Websites
A website maintained by the curators at the Mount, her home in Lenox, MA, which is now a museum.
An e-text version of the novel.
Movie or TV Productions
Directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder.
Historical Documents
Now that you know how easily she disposes of her characters, why did she give the characters in The Age of Innocence such long lives?
We can think of Edith Wharton as Newland Archer and Morton Fullerton as Countess Olenska after reading these passionate letters.
Video
Trailer for Martin Scorcese's 1993 adaptation of the novel.
Hear the stars of The Age of Innocence chat about their Wharton-errific experience.
Hear the stars of The Age of Innocence chat about their Wharton-errific experience.
Hear the stars of The Age of Innocence chat about their Wharton-errific experience.
Audio
A NPR story that peers into the passionate love affair that derailed Edith Wharton's life, Newland Archer-style.
Images
A depiction of Actaeon's grisly death in punishment for seeing the Greek goddess Diana naked.
Edith Wharton took her title from Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of his favorite niece.