Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan
University. The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged
29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to
safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her
expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling.
Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes
vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl
who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts
the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider
picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York
where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have
disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.
The House of Mirth was published in October 1905 to widespread
critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded
today as one of Edith Wharton's most accomplished and compelling
social satires.
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