Joseph Griffin, now retired, was an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Ottawa. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame.
2009 0-7734-4682-6 Between 1891 and 1937 Edith Wharton published some eighty-six short stories, most of them in American magazines, and most of them in volume form as well. In 1968 all of these stories were published by Scribner’s in a two-volume set, The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton, edited and with an introduction by R.W.B. Lewis. The present work provides a history of the stories’ appearance in the magazines and their subsequent publication in volume form.