In 1911, Edith Wharton found herself stuck at the Belmont Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Her life was stagnant. She was at the beginning of her divorce from Teddy Wharton. They were at the Belmont, ...
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Edith Wharton wasn't the first woman in her family to get a divorce. Nearly 50 years before the Pulitzer winner sold her Lenox estate, divorced Teddy Wharton and permanently moved to France, her ...