The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Current Events & Pop Culture
Available to teachers only as part of the Teaching The Age of Innocence Teacher Pass
Teaching The Age of Innocence Teacher Pass includes:
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Sample of Current Events & Pop Culture
Blue Blood Real Estate
Ever wonder how the other half lived in The Age of Innocence? Take a look at the photographs of the houses that inspired Edith Wharton. This article could help capture student's imagination and ability to visualize as they read the novel.
Excerpt
Edith Wharton's corpulent great-aunt Mary Mason Jones served as one of the most memorable inspirations in literary New York: the model for Mrs. Manson Mingott in Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence. Much of the 1920 book is centered on Mary Jones's remarkable row of stone houses on Fifth Avenue, from 57th to 58th Street. But almost absent from Wharton's writings is Mary's sister Rebecca Jones, who built an equally impressive row just two blocks south.(Source)