# 1920 - 1981 18c Professional Management
1981 18¢ Professional Management
City: Philadelphia, PA
Quantity: 99,420,000
death of edith wharton
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton was born on January 24, 1862, in New York City, New York. Wharton came from a wealthy family – it’s been said that the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses” may have been in reference to her father’s family. After the Civil War, her family traveled Europe extensively, during which time she learned French, German, and Italian.
Wharton opposed the ideals of the time that expected young women to be put on display at parties so they could be married. She thought these traditions were oppressive and wanted to get a better education than was expected of her. She began reading anything she could find, but her mother eventually forbade her from reading novels until she was married.
Wharton discovered her love of writing at a young age, penning poems and fiction as a child and her first novel when she was 11. She was first published at 15, when she translated a German poem, “What the Stones Tell.” However, it was published under another name because it wasn’t proper for a society woman at the time.
Wharton published her most famous work, The Age of innocence in 1920. For that work, she became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book was later adapted for film several times. In addition to her novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories and was a talented garden and interior designer. She wrote several popular design and home and garden books and was considered a tastemaker of her time.
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1981 18¢ Professional Management
City: Philadelphia, PA
Quantity: 99,420,000
death of edith wharton
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton was born on January 24, 1862, in New York City, New York. Wharton came from a wealthy family – it’s been said that the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses” may have been in reference to her father’s family. After the Civil War, her family traveled Europe extensively, during which time she learned French, German, and Italian.
Wharton opposed the ideals of the time that expected young women to be put on display at parties so they could be married. She thought these traditions were oppressive and wanted to get a better education than was expected of her. She began reading anything she could find, but her mother eventually forbade her from reading novels until she was married.
Wharton discovered her love of writing at a young age, penning poems and fiction as a child and her first novel when she was 11. She was first published at 15, when she translated a German poem, “What the Stones Tell.” However, it was published under another name because it wasn’t proper for a society woman at the time.
Wharton published her most famous work, The Age of innocence in 1920. For that work, she became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book was later adapted for film several times. In addition to her novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories and was a talented garden and interior designer. She wrote several popular design and home and garden books and was considered a tastemaker of her time.
Click here for more about Wharton.