Biography
Edith Worton was an American writer who enjoyed the knowledge of the highest society to realistically display the morals well-known people. She became the first woman who received the literary Pulitzer Prize for the novel, who admired the friend and colleague Henry James.Childhood and youth
Biography Edith Worton began on January 24, 1862, at the birth of the future writer called Edith Newbold Jones. Her parents George and Lucretia Reliefs on the real estate trade and have attracted to the families of landowners, from the Netherlands moved to New York.
At an early stage of life, the girl caught the confrontation of allies and confederates, as a result of which the US national currency was depreciated. Despite this, Clan Jones regularly traveled to rest, visiting countries such as Germany and Spain.
Edith, together with the older brothers, received home education and told three languages at the 10th age. She rejected the standards of fashion and secular etiquette, refusing to participate in the receptions, Rauta and Bals.
Parents condescendingly related to daughter's whims, because at the beginning of 1871 she suffered abdominal typhus. Miraculously healing, the baby decided to devote the lives to the ministry to society and therefore read dozens of artistic and scientific books.
Education received from governess, Edith considered too superficial and complemented gaps in knowledge, digging in the Father's library. Over time, the mother, taking care of the future, put a ban on the novels, and then blocked access to other literature until the heiress would find the groom.
Jones-senior, on the contrary, admired the abilities of his daughter and gladly listened to the stories that she composed herself. George also became the first listener of the translation of the poem of a little-known German author and published it under the name of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Personal life
In the 1880s, Edith gave way to the will of the mother and, leaving literary creativity, as the debutant was published. On the aristocratic ball in New York, she met the heir of a businessman, but the parents who did not want this marriage quickly reduced the relationship.After some time, Edward Robbins Worton, a financial officer from a noble family appeared in the personal life of the American writer. In 1885, he became a legitimate husband of the girl, but married to anyone brought happiness due to the lack of love.
Edith Worton (standing) with his brother, Frederick Raineleander Jones and Sister Mary Kadwalader Jones
There were no children from the spouses, so the sense of duty was buried, and Edith got a novel with a journalist named Morton Fullerton. The couple perfectly approached each other in views on the world and character, so after the divorce of the writer with Edward Robbins, they traveled a lot together.
Books
After the publication of early poems, Worton began to create novels, but the first work of this genre presented to the public in 40 years. It was the book of "Valley of Decisions", which narrated about the life of the aristocrats and along with fictional events contained an autobiographical element.
In 1905, the chapters and passages from the following work called "House Mirut" were published on the pages of Scribner's Magazine. The author told the story of a noble, but impoverished woman, in the lives of which, because of public prejudices, despondency and emptiness reigned.
The success of the novel from critics and readers made Edith move on, and by 1917 she released a number of new works. Among them were the books of the "Fruit of Tree" and "Summer", the guide "Flying through France" and the novel "Itan Froum".
The novel of the creative career was the novel "The Epoch of Innocence", whose printed version was presented by D. Appleton & Company. For him, Edith unexpectedly received a Pulitzer Prize in literature, although, in fact, it was a description of her own destiny.
The main idea of the work was the clash of a new and old society, which occurred in America at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. Take a place in the circle of aristocrats was the main goal of the characters, and for this they lost self-esteem and love.
In addition to the artistic writings, publicism was present in the Bibliography: journey reports, manuals for authors and household arrangement tips. She was recognized as an outstanding prosair that took his own creative niche and fruitfully worked until the end of the 1930s.
Death
At the beginning of the summer of 1937, Edith rested in France, while working on the design book was experiencing a heart attack and fell without feelings. Soon the health of the American writer began to cause the concerns of loved ones, and the cause of sustainable death was hemorrhage and stroke.Waorton buried in a simple grave at the Protestant cemetery in Versailles in front of the grieving relatives and hundreds of inephorty people. The memory of the author of the "Innocence Epoch" remained in the form of a photo and the names of the crater, as well as the novel and novels that became the screen vessels.
Bibliography
- 1897 - "Decoration of houses"
- 1905 - "House of Mirta"
- 1911 - "Itan Froum"
- 1912 - "Reef, or where happiness is broken"
- 1917 - "Summer"
- 1920 - "Epoch of innocence"
- 1922 - "In the rays of the flickering moon"
- 1928 - "Children"
- 1937 - "Ghosts"
- 1938 - "Pirates"