"Autres Temps..." by Edith Wharton is a thoughtful story set in the early 1900s about a woman named Mrs. Lidcote as she comes back to New York after being away for many years. It's about remembering the past, how society changes, and figuring out who you are. The story follows Mrs. Lidcote as she reflects on the past and watches her daughter, Leila, repeat some of her mistakes concerning her romantic history. When she gets to New York, Mrs. Lidcote feels lonely and worried, especially because her daughter just got divorced and remarried. Talking to friends from the past, she starts to understand how alone she really is and how society has changed, affecting her place in it. In the end, the story is about trying to make peace with your past and finding a way to fit in again when the world has moved forward.
Autres Temps... 1916
By Edith Wharton
Returning home after a long absence, a woman faces a transformed world and echoes of her own past in her daughter's life.
Summary
About the AuthorEdith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel, The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel, The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
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