Old New York (novel)  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
to: navigation, search  Old New York (1924) is a collection of
four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New
York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s.   The
novellas are not directly interconnected, though certain
fictional characters appear in more than one story. The New York
of these stories is the same as the New York of The Age of
Innocence (1920), from which several fictional characters have
spilled over into these stories. The observation of the manners
and morals of 19th century New York upper-class society is
directly reminiscent of The Age of Innocence, but these novellas
are shaped more as character studies than as a full-blown novel.
Some characters who overlap among these four stories and The Age
of Innocence: Mrs. (Catherine) Manson Mingott, Sillerton
Jackson, Mrs. Lemuel Struthers, Henry Van der Luyden. Other
families and institutions also appear in more than one place
among this extended set of