gptkbp:instance_of
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gptkb:Author
gptkb:Person
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gptkbp:adaptation
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gptkb:Ethan_Frome_(film)
gptkb:The_Age_of_Innocence_(film)
gptkb:The_Custom_of_the_Country_(film)
gptkb:The_House_of_Mirth_(film)
The Glimpses of the Moon (film)
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gptkbp:associated_with
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gptkb:The_House_of_Mirth
gptkb:The_Atlantic_Monthly
gptkb:The_Century_Magazine
gptkb:The_New_York_Times
gptkb:The_Age_of_Innocence
gptkb:The_Writing_of_Fiction
gptkb:The_Custom_of_the_Country
gptkb:The_Children
gptkb:The_Glimpses_of_the_Moon
gptkb:The_Reef
Literary Modernism
The Touchstone
The Fruit of the Tree
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gptkbp:award
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gptkb:Pulitzer_Prize
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gptkbp:awards
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gptkb:Pulitzer_Prize
Honorary Doctorate from Yale University
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gptkbp:birth_date
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January 24, 1862
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gptkbp:born
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gptkb:The_Wharton_House
January 24, 1862
The Wharton family home in New York
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gptkbp:burial_place
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Ashes scattered in the Green Mountains
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gptkbp:cultural_impact
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Significant influence on women's literature
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gptkbp:death_date
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August 11, 1937
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gptkbp:died
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August 11, 1937
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gptkbp:education
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gptkb:The_School_of_the_Sacred_Heart
gptkb:Bryn_Mawr_College
gptkb:The_Lawrence_School
gptkb:Miss_Porter's_School
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gptkbp:famous_for
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Exploring themes of wealth and social class
Depicting the lives of the American elite
Writing about the constraints of society
Exploring the lives of the American elite
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gptkbp:famous_quote
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“ The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
“ If only we could be given a second chance at life, we would be able to do it right.”
“ Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
“ There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
“ I think of my work as a kind of a bridge.”
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gptkbp:genre
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gptkb:Novels
gptkb:Fiction
Literary criticism
Literary fiction
Short stories
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Edith Wharton
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:Willa_Cather
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
American literature
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gptkbp:influenced_artists
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Literary fiction
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gptkbp:influenced_by
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gptkb:Henry_James
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gptkbp:inspired
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Future generations of writers
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gptkbp:involvement
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World War I efforts
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gptkbp:literary_movement
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gptkb:Realism
Naturalism
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:American
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gptkbp:notable_achievement
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First woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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gptkbp:notable_awards
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gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters
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gptkbp:notable_work
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gptkb:The_House_of_Mirth
gptkb:Ethan_Frome
gptkb:The_Age_of_Innocence
gptkb:Ethan_Frome_(film_adaptation)
gptkb:Ethan_Frome_(opera_adaptation)
gptkb:The_Age_of_Innocence_(film_adaptation)
gptkb:The_Age_of_Innocence_(opera_adaptation)
gptkb:The_Custom_of_the_Country_(film_adaptation)
gptkb:The_House_of_Mirth_(film_adaptation)
gptkb:The_House_of_Mirth_(opera_adaptation)
gptkb:The_Writing_of_Fiction
gptkb:The_Custom_of_the_Country
gptkb:The_Children
gptkb:The_Glimpses_of_the_Moon
gptkb:The_Reef
The Touchstone
A Backward Glance
The Glimpses of the Moon (film adaptation)
The Writing of Fiction (book adaptation)
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:short_stories
gptkb:designers
gptkb:Novelist
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gptkbp:philanthropy
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Supported the arts
Supported literary societies
Supported the American Red Cross
Supported the French war effort
Supported women's education
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gptkbp:place_of_birth
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gptkb:New_York_City
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gptkbp:place_of_death
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gptkb:Plymouth,_Vermont
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gptkbp:posthumous_recognition
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gptkb:Edith_Wharton_Award_for_Fiction
gptkb:Edith_Wharton_Prize_for_Fiction
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gptkbp:related_to
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gptkb:literature
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Edward_Wharton
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gptkbp:style
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gptkb:Realism
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gptkbp:themes
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Society and class
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gptkbp:won
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gptkb:Pulitzer_Prize
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gptkbp:writings
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Pioneering female authorship
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gptkbp:wrote
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gptkb:The_House_of_Mirth
gptkb:Ethan_Frome
gptkb:The_Age_of_Innocence
gptkb:The_Writing_of_Fiction
gptkb:The_Custom_of_the_Country
gptkb:The_Children
gptkb:The_Glimpses_of_the_Moon
gptkb:The_Reef
A Backward Glance
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gptkbp:year
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gptkb:1921
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Capri
gptkb:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:Willa_Cather
gptkb:Boston_Marriage
gptkb:Édith_Piaf
gptkb:The_Age_of_Innocence
gptkb:Alice_Lee_Roosevelt_Longworth
gptkb:Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum
gptkb:The_Bishop's_Wife
gptkb:The_Age_of_Innocence_(1993)
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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