My local library has discarded the following book ; EDITH WHARTON, A Biography, by R.W.B. Lewis. copyright 1975 I copied the following information from the internet. Edith parents, George Frederic and Lucretia Jones, were descendants of English and Dutch colonists who had made fortunes in shipping, banking, and real estate. Edith Jones belonged to the small, most fashionable society of New York which lived on inherited wealth and were interrelated. After a six-year sojourn of traveling and living in Europe with her family, she returned at age ten to live on Twenty-third Street, near Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan. She did not go to school, but educated herself by reading in her father's "gentleman's library," and was given lessons by a governess. In 1885, when she was twenty-three, she married Edward ("Teddy") Robbins Wharton. Edith Wharton was in an ideal position to view the social ambitions of the newly rich of the Gilded Age (the post-Civil War period of American expansion in business, foreign affairs, and the arts). Her world of old money looked down on the newcomers and their ostentatious display of wealth. Wharton was both a participant of fashionable society and an observer of its kaleidoscopic changes in New York, in Newport (where she had summered in her childhood and had her own house after her marriage) and later in Lenox, Massachusetts, where she built her own country house, The Mount, in 1902. Edith Wharton herself was not content to be merely a society matron and hostess. From childhood, she showed that she was exceptionally bright and creative: even before she could read, she made up stories, and as an adolescent, wrote poetry and fiction, a novella titled Fast and Loose, precocious for a writer of fifteen. As an adult she found writing difficult and did not publish her first book of fiction until she was thirty-six. The conflict she felt between the accepted role of a society matron and that of a professional writer caused her much anxiety, no doubt contributed to the depression for which she was treated in the 1890s. A tonic for her depression was her yearly escape to France and Italy which inspired her to write about art, architecture, and gardens. Wharton eventually settled permanently in France--first in Paris, in the historic Faubourg Saint-Germain, where she had begun spending winters in 1907--and later in its outskirts. She divorced Teddy Wharton in 1913. In Paris she found intellectual companionship in circles where artists and writers mingled with the rich and well-born, and where women played a major role. During World War I she became fiercely dedicated to the Allied cause. She led the committee to aid refugees from northeastern France and Belgium, and created hostels and schools for them. She helped establish workrooms to employ women who had no means of support and raised funds for these projects. Traveling to the front lines to observe the fighting, Wharton wrote reports for publication in America and urged the United States to join the war effort. Edith Newbold Jones was born January 24, 1862. If you have an interest in this book, please e-mail me OFF the list. Joan

I would like a copy, Please. Always, Anna

Hi what did I miss? What Jones book was offered for free? Please bring me up to date. Thanks. Donna -----Original Message----- From: Anna Farris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 4:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Jones] FREE BOOK OFFER. I would like a copy, Please. Always, Anna ==== JONES Mailing List ==== Direct your questions, comments or problems to the listowner at [email protected] For detailed instructions on subscribing and unsubscribing visit this site: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/j/jones.html browse the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/jones search the archives: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=JONES If you need help contact Kathi Jones-Hudson, JONES Listowner [email protected] or [email protected]