An oceanfront estate in Newport, R.I., that once belonged to author Edith Wharton has sold for $8.6 million after almost a year on the market. The property had originally been asking $11.7 million.

LENOX, Mass., Dec. 15 -- The personal library of Edith Wharton, the aristocratic novelist and confidante of Henry James, has been purchased from a British bookseller by her estate for $2.6 million.

LENOX — Visiting a good sculpture park is like dropping into a fairyland. You gambol over hills, wander through gardens and groves, and discover art that’s fey or austere, lustrous or peculiar. Often, ...

NEWPORT — Land's End, a 24-room estate once owned by famed novelist Edith Wharton and then socialite Marion "Oatsie" Charles, perched above the Cliff Walk and the Atlantic Ocean on a southern tip of ...

LENOX — The Mount, home of Edith Wharton Restoration, hopes to embark on a historical renovation project to restore the Laurel Lake shorefront farmhouse built by Wharton and her husband, Teddy, in ...

PRINT. LADIES OF LIT, ON CHRONICLE. >> BOOK SALES -- MORE THAN 8% IN 2020 ACCORDING TO PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. PEOPLE ARE TURNING TO BOOKS AS THEY LOOK TO ESCAPE THE REALITIES OF THE WORLD. THERE PACKED ...