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It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. [2] The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the Gilded Age. Wharton wrote th in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author with publishers clamoring for her Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland.
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