Teacher Guide

Roman Fever and Other Stories Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Other short story collections by Wharton include: The Greater Inclination (1899) Crucial Instances (1901), The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904), The Other Two (1904), The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (1908) Tales of Men and Ghosts, (1910) Xingu and Other Stories (1916), Here and Beyond (1926), Certain People (1930), Human Nature (1933), The World Over (1936), and Ghosts (1937).

For thematically relevant 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.

Consider also works by William Dean Howells and Henry James, two writers whom Wharton herself admired.

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