Teacher Guide

Ethan Frome Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Other novellas by Wharton include: Touchstone; Sanctuary; Madame de Trymes; Bunner Sisters; Old New York; and Fast and Loose.

Wharton drew inspiration for this novella from Bronte's Wuthering Heights; Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance; Browning's The Ring and The Book; Keat's poem "The Eve Of St. Agnes"; and Balzac's short story "La Grande Bretèche.

For more work from other women writers at the time, please see: Kate Chopin, Jane Austen, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Willa Cather, and Gertrude Stein.

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