![]() ![]() Wharton may well have crossed paths with him when he returned to France in early 1917 as Minister of War. This year the literary world commemorates the centennial of perhaps Wharton’s most celebrated novel, The Age of Innocence, but 2020 also marks 100 years since the publication of one of Wharton’s lesser-known works, her 1920 travelogue In Morocco.Įdith Wharton in Newport, Rhode Island, 1907.įrance had appointed Hubert Lyautey as its first Resident-General in Morocco in 1912 after its conquest of the country. The articles and books that she published about it aimed to convince her American compatriots of the pressing need for a French empire in the Arab world. Her Moroccan sojourn undoubtedly offered a welcome respite from the discomforts and anxieties of war-torn Europe.īut Wharton’s trip to Morocco was a working holiday. She travelled regularly to the Western Front to report on the war for Scribner’s Magazine. ‘Oh the relief’, she wrote from her hotel in Rabat, ‘of a real holiday.’ For three years, Wharton had immersed herself in wartime work in Paris, where she had set up shelters for Belgian refugees and found work for unemployed seamstresses. Edith Wharton travelled to Morocco in autumn 1917 as a guest of France’s Resident-General Hubert Lyautey. ![]()
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