![]() ![]() ![]() When The Shadow of a Doubt was written, Wharton, then 39, was not yet a novelist, and had published only shorter fiction and poetry. She was also nominated three times for the Nobel prize in literature. “Yet the discovery of The Shadow of a Doubt also develops new thinking and proves of profound influence on our understanding of Wharton’s work as a novelist.”īorn in 1862, Wharton won the Pulitzer prize for The Age of Innocence, published in 1920. “Well before the publication of her first novel, we can now ascertain that Wharton was establishing herself as a playwright, deeply engaged in both the creative and business aspects of the theatre – playwriting more important to her at this time than establishing herself as a novelist. ![]() Rattray said: “The late 19th and early years of the 20th century cover a pivotal, formative period of Wharton’s career, about which scholars still have less information than they would like. It is not referenced in major Wharton biographies, and other plays are all unfinished manuscripts and typescripts held in the archives at Yale University. Character list for Edith Wharton’s typescript draft ![]()
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