Advertisement'Age Of Desire': How Wharton Lost Her 'Innocence'August 10, 2012Lynn NearyfacebookEmailEdith Wharton moved to Paris in the early 1900s. Not long after, in 1913, after her affair with Morton Fullerton had ended, she divorced her husband of more than 20 years. (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)