1880, she had five poems published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly, an important literary magazine. Despite these early successes, she was not encouraged by her family or her social circle, and though she continued to write, she did not publish anything more until her poem "The Last Giustiniani" was published in Scribner's Magazine in October 1889.

The "debutante" years

Between 1880 and 1890, Wharton put her writing aside to participate in the social rituals of the New York upper

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