The Massachusetts home of author Edith Wharton has agreed with creditors on a restructuring plan to reduce its debt. The estate is known as the Mount. It's near the Tanglewood summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox, a tiny town in the Berkshires ...

EDITH WHARTON by Hermione Lee Chatto,

There is no getting away from it, Edith Wharton was grand.

It never occurred to her to spare expense. On her honeymoon cruise, she and her feckless husband Teddy chartered a 333ton steam yacht with a crew of 16. When they settled down at 884 Park Avenue, they bought the house next door to ...

You won't find a grander monument to failed marriage than the Mount, the New England picture-book palace built by Edith Wharton a century ago. Wharton was a house and garden designer first, a novelist second. She wrote The Decoration of Houses in 1897, almost a decade before she embarked on the novels. Belton House in Lincolnshire, a Christopher Wrenesque ...

In a March 30 story about the resignation of the president and CEO of the Edith Wharton Restoration, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities was used to pay creditors. The grant is being used to help pay the costs of a fundraising effort, said Susan ...