Edith Wharton (In Our Time)
1920 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works of Wharton (1862-1937) such as The Age of Innocence for which she won the Pulitzer Prize and was the first woman to do so, The House of Mirth, and The Custom of the Country. Her novels explore the world of privileged New Yorkers in the Gilded Age of the late C19th, of which she was part, drawing on her own experience
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1920
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
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- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)