Autres Temps is an Edith Wharton novella about divorce, remarriage, social change, and the painful unevenness of progress. Through the figure of Mrs. Lidcote and the younger generation around her, Wharton examines how rules that once ruined women can later soften, leaving earlier victims stranded between old shame and new freedom.
The title's sense of other times is central: society changes, but memory and reputation do not change at the same speed. Wharton turns manners into moral history, showing how private lives are shaped by shifting public tolerance and lingering judgment. Readers interested in divorce in fiction, women's social position, American realism, and Wharton's compact studies of class and convention will find Autres Temps quietly powerful.
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