A Friendship Made in Gardens
At The Mount, ResearchThis post explores the relationship between Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield, a fellow writer and gardener.
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2023 Gala Celebration: War Panel
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Washington Post columnist Max Boot, international affairs correspondent Anne Nelson, and New York Times contributor Ted Widmer share their war-reporting experiences and observations on ongoing global conflicts, including the war ... Read more
2023 Gala Celebration: Wharton Panel
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Wharton specialists and literary experts Jennifer Haytock, Sheila Liming, and Nathan Wolff share their views on why Edith Wharton’s writings remain relevant today, moderated by Wharton scholar and Barnard College ... Read more
A Trip to Beinecke
At The Mount, ResearchCuratorial Assistant Michelle Dempsey and Research Assistant Nick Hudson ventured to Beinecke Library at Yale University in March.
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A Visit to Villa Farnese at Caprarola
At The Mount, ResearchThe Mount’s Garden Interpreter Bob Guarino traced Edith Wharton’s travels in Italy, basing his own journey on her publication Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904).
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Behind the Scenes at The Mount
Behind the Scenes
Berkshire winters can be very cold. The first week of February brought below freezing temperatures. Here at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home, blankets of snow froze over, as did the ... Read more
2022 Summer Lecture with Kati Marton
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In this “masterpiece of discernment and insight” (The New York Times Book Review), acclaimed biographer Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of Angela Merkel’s unlikely ascent. With unparalleled access ... Read more
2022 Summer Lecture with Ann McCutchan
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Ann McCutchan‘s The Life She Wished to Live paints a lively portrait of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida landscape and people that inspired her. Rawlings was a tough, passionate, ... Read more
2022 Summer Lecture with Chad Williams
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For nearly two decades, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted to write what he believed would be the definitive history of the African American experience in World War I. In ... Read more
2022 Summer Lecture with Susan Branson
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In Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American efforts to achieve cultural independence from Europe and America’s nation building in the early republic and ... Read more