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ENGL 7320: Dead Girls: The House of Mirth

An OER for Martha Nadell's ENG 7320: Dead Girls

About: The House of Mirth

House of Mirth: Text

Wharton, The House of Mirth
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Image from:Wharton, Edith, and A B. Wenzell. The House of Mirth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. Internet resource.

House of Mirth: Articles

Dimock, “Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth”
Dimock, Wai-Chee. "Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." PMLA 100, no. 5 (1985): 783-92. doi:10.2307/462098.
Pizer, The Naturalism of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth”
Pizer, Donald. "The Naturalism of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Twentieth Century Literature 41, no. 2 (1995): 241-48. doi:10.2307/441649.

House of Mirth: Further Resources

Edith Wharton Collection: Beinecke Library, Yale
Edith Wharton Collection
Manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs documenting the life and career of Edith Wharton.
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Image: 1884, [Portrait of Edith Wharton with two dogs] via Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Edith Wharton collection

House of Mirth: Gallery

MLA Citation Cooper, E. F, and Edith Wharton. [Photograph of Edith Wharton Ca. 1889-1890].

MLA Citation Cooper, E. F, and Edith Wharton. [Photograph of Edith Wharton Ca. 1889-1890].

Photograph of Edith Wharton, taken by E. F. Cooper in Newport, Rhode Island, 1889-1890. Courtesy of Beinecke Library, Yale, New Haven.

The tragic heroine of The House of Mirth (1905), Lily Bart, lingers at the broad staircase, observing the high-society people gathered in the hall below. Ill. A. B. Wenzell (Artist) - The House of Mirth

The tragic heroine of The House of Mirth (1905), Lily Bart, lingers at the broad staircase, observing the high-society people gathered in the hall below. Ill. A. B. Wenzell (Artist) - The House of Mirth

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925). Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) (detail), 1883–84. Oil on canvas; 82 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (208.6 x 109.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916 (16.53)

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925). Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) (detail), 1883–84. Oil on canvas; 82 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (208.6 x 109.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916 (16.53)