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When she began writing âThe Age of Innocence,â in September, 1919, Edith Wharton needed a best-seller. The economic ravages of the First World War had cut her annual income by about sixty per cent. Sheâd recently bought and begun to renovate a country house, Pavillon Colombe, in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, where she installed new black-and-white marble floors in the dining room, replaced a âhumpyâ lawn with seven acres of lavish gardens, built a water-lily pond, and expanded the
potager, to name just a few additions. She was still paying rent at her apartment at 53 Rue de Varenne, in Parisâa grand flat festooned with carved-wood cherubs and ornate fireplaces. The costs added up.