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In 1902, Wharton designed The Mount, her estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, which survives today as an example of her design principles. Edith Wharton wrote several of her novels there, including The House of Mirth (1905), the first of many chronicles of life in old New York.

At The Mount, she entertained the cream of American literary society, including her close friend, novelist Henry James. The Mount was her primary residence until 1911.

Life in France

Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out, and she was a supporter of the French war effort.

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She opened a workroom for unemployed women where they would receive a meal and one franc per day in exchange for sewing. When the Germans invaded Belgium in the fall of 1914 and Paris was flooded with Belgian refugees, she helped to set up the American Hostels for Refugees, which managed to get them shelter, meals, clothes and eventually an employment agency to help them find work.

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