What's New at the Edith Wharton Society Site

Archive of previous "What's New" announcements

Note: Many of the new features are listed for a month or so on the home page of this site rather than being listed here.

  • 31 December 2007. Updates to the New Work on Wharton bibliography; Table of Contents for the Fall 2007 issue of the Edith Wharton Review .
  • 29 December. Call for EWS panel topics for MLA 2008.
  • 26 December 2007. New replies.
  • The 1934 film adaptation of The Age of Innocence will be shown on Turner Classic Movies at 6:30 a.m. ET on December 28, 2007. This film is not available on DVD or VHS.
  • 22 December. Edith Wharton sessions and business meeting at MLA 2007
  • New queries. Zeena's accusation: what happened after Ethan Frome's mother's death?
  • Announcement of a new journal and CFP.
  • 21 November. Lily Bart's death: suicide or accident? A newly discovered letter by Edith Wharton suggests the former (from the New York Times, at Edith Wharton in the News)
  • 18 November. New musical adaptation of The Glimpses of the Moon in Wharton News and Notes.
  • 11 November. New queries; new announcements in Edith Wharton News and Notes.
  • 3 October. New calls for papers (ALA 2008; Deadline 1/15/08)
  • 27 September. New queries.
  • Announcement: Digital Americanists
  • 7 September. New Call for Papers: Edith Wharton and History (Deadline January 20, 2008).
  • 20 July. Edith Wharton Research Award (Deadline: 3/15/08)
  • Minutes from the MLA 2006 business meeting.
  • New calls for papers.
  • New tables of contents for the Edith Wharton Review See also the entire list of tables of contents for the EWR.
  • 12 July. At Edith Wharton in the News: Wharton and H. C. Bunner; Garrison Keillor on readers of Edith Wharton.
  • 2 July. The Age of Innocence chosen as "Big Read" in NEA Grant to Caldwell, N.J. Public Library.
  • 25 June. Updates to new works on Edith Wharton.
    • 21 June 2007. Responses to queries (on an Edith Wharton quotation; on Teddy Wharton's grave); Wharton's letters for sale at auction; a possible new Edith Wharton portrait.
  • 15 May. New queries (site of Teddy Wharton's grave?)
  • 7 May. Edith Wharton Society panels at ALA 2007.
  • 22 April. More reviews of the Hermione Lee biography in Edith Wharton in the News; new queries and replies.
  • 12 April. Summaries of Edith Wharton's works, including The Glimpses of the Moon.
  • Reviews of Hermione Lee's new biography of Wharton in Edith Wharton in the News.
  • 2 April. Updates to bibliography of recent publications on Wharton.
  • 31 March. Trip to Morocco in October 2007, sponsored by The Mount.
  • New queries and student queries.
    • 29 January. Research award deadline extended to March 15, 2007.
  • 24 January. Happy birthday to Edith Wharton! (January 24, 1862).
  • 17 January. New queries.
  • 5 January. Call for papers for MLA 2007.
  • 2 January 2007. Edith Wharton Essay Prize;Updates to Call for Paper for ALA 2007
  • 31 December Results of EWS Executive Board elections.
  • 12 December. Edith Wharton Research Award.
    • 11 December. Edith Wharton panels and business meeting at MLA 2006 in Philadelphia.
  • 3 December. Edith Wharton Society Dinner at MLA 2006.
  • 22 November. Updates to Wharton News and Notes.
  • 15 November. New queries; additions to bibliography.
  • 23 October. Table of Contents for Edith Wharton Review; new queries and replies (Edith Wharton as a fabric designer? Address of Pavillon Colombe?)
  • 17 October. Wharton panels at ALA.
  • 7 October. New queries and student queries.