Wharton in Images

Portrait of Wharton as a Young Girl

1870

Painted by Edward Harrison May

Postcard of Wharton

ca. 1880

Otto Wegener

Portrait of Edith Wharton as a young Woman

1881

Painted by Edward Harrison May

Photograph of a young Edith Wharton, with Dog

ca. 1889

Collection/Beinecke 10061396

Edith and her two of her Dogs

ca. 1889 - 1890

Photograph taken by E. F. Cooper, at Newport, Rhode Island. Cabinet photograph. Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Wharton's Signature

1900

Wharton, Edith. 1900, July 19. Lloyd W. Smith Archival Collection. LWS 2703. Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown, NJ.

Photograph of Wharton reading

Early 1900s

Photographer unknown

Courtesy The World's Work, 1905

Postcard of The Mount

ca. 1902-1903

Tinted postcard, c.1902-03, of The Mount, the earliest known image following its completion and pre-dating installation of the surrounding gardens.

A Young Wharton

ca. early 1900s

Photographer unknown

Edith Newbold Jones in Hat with Fur Muff

1907

Photograph taken in Newport, Rhode Island, of author Edith Wharton, wearing hat with a feather, coat with fur trim, and a fur muff. Image courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Photograph of Wharton at her Desk

1915

Photographer unknown

Henry James, Edith Wharton and Howard Sturgis on the veranda at The Mount

ca. 1920

Photographer unknown

Wharton's Le Pavilion Colombe, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France

1925

View of the gardens at Pavilion Colombe, St. Brice-sous-Forêt, France, with the home of American writer Edith Wharton in the background. Photograph by American photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. No known restrictions on publication. Johnston archives part of the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.