House of Mirth is centered on Lily Bart, a New York socialite who attempts to secure a husband and a place in affluent society. It was one of the first novels of manners to emerge in American literature.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Vachel Lindsay, G. K. Chesterton, Emma Lazarus, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joyce Kilmer, Willa Cather, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Bradstreet, Alan Seeger, William Cullen Bryant, Edith Wharton & T. S. Eliot