Word: wharton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wharton's Hothouse Produce Becomes Virile
...Significance. Her severest critics have never suggested that Mrs. Wharton is not the most finished U. S. novelist of the country. But they have regarded the fruits of her work as hothouse produce-glossy plums of culture, fat melons of class, clipped hedges of morality. The flavor of irony in this latest offering indicates that even hothouse produce can be kept fairly virile...
...Author. Mrs. Edith Wharton (née Jones of New York), a vigorous lady of 63, seldom leaves the cosmopolitan stream of charming and distinguished people constantly passing through her villa at Hyères on the Mediterranean and her house in Paris. Since 1899, she has been known as the most apt pupil Novelist Henry James ever had-a pupil with a score of polished books to her credit, including one American masterpiece, Ethan Frame...
...MOTHER'S .RECOMPENSE-Edith Wharton-Appleton...
...System has been rejected by students, as at Harvard; where it has met severe enough criticism to gain official attention by University authorities but after discussion has been retained, as at Union College; and where it has been abolished because it has been considered a failure, as in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania...