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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wharton, Edith

Wharton, Edith
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Brief Account Of Edith Wharton's Life: Early Life.

Mrs. Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in her
parents' mansion on West Twenty-Third Street in New York City. Her mother,
Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, connected with wealthy Dutch landowners and
merchants of the early nineteenth century, was the granddaughter of an
outstanding American Revolutionary War patriot, General Ebenezer Stevens.
After the war, General Stevens became a very successful East-India
merchant. Edith Wharton's father, a man of considerable private, inherited
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