Edith Definition & Meaning

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Edith American [ee-dith] / ˈi dɪθ / Or Edithe

noun

1. a female given name: from Old English words meaning “rich, happy” and “war.”

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Edith Wharton is a moth-eaten gown in the musty attic of American literature.

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If I had misjudged Edith Wharton, I wondered, what else might I be wrong about?

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Before joining WSJ, Edith worked as a competition reporter for Politico Europe.

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Sometimes, the clues are viewed in kind of negative fashion: An engraving found on an ancient bronze tablet in southern Italy is explained by Edith Hall—specialist in Greek literature and cultural history at Durham University—as having banned female gladiators.

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A chance meeting with Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and lauded for his designs for the Vanderbilt family, led Roth to Hunt’s firm in New York and then to that of the architect Ogden Codman Jr., a tastemaking friend of Edith Wharton.

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