Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Henry James
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Standard Name: James, Henry
HJ
(who began publishing in 1871 and continued into the twentieth century) left his native USA to settle in England early in his writing career. Known for his extreme subtlety, verging at times on obscurity, he was hugely influential as a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. His also wrote plays, which, however, were unsuccessful on stage.
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Literary responses | George Eliot | John Morley
, anonymously in the Saturday Review, noted that [o]ne of the puzzles, which runs pathetically through Felix Holt as through Romola and the The Mill on the Floss, is the evil... |
Literary responses | Patricia Highsmith | Critic Bob Wake
discusses Highsmith's complex point-of-view techniques—a literary style begun by Henry James
—and her modelling The Talented Mr Ripley on his novel The Ambassadors (1903). He notes her humorous plays on the James... |
Literary responses | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Updike
again complained about RPJ
's refusal of sympathy to her characters. Robert Towers
went further: linking this with Jhabvala's gender and (British) nationality, he accused her of revelling in her characters' discomfiture and degradation... |
Literary responses | Dinah Mulock Craik | Sally Mitchell
characterizes it as embarrassing to read Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 64 |
Literary responses | George Eliot | This work was quite well reviewed, though Richard Holt Hutton
wrote that GE
found verse a fetter, and not a stimulus, Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 294 |
Literary responses | Ella D'Arcy | H. G. Wells
reviewed Monochromes along with volumes of stories by Henry Harland
and by Henry James
. Dismissing Harland as a mediocrity and James for his style (which he likened to thorns, brambles, and... |
Literary responses | Alice Meynell | This collection moved the Times Literary Supplement to declare that its delicacy—of scrupulousness, balance, fineness, skill—is as rare in life and in art as ever it was. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 222-3 |
Literary responses | Isa Blagden | |
Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | A Fair Barbarian was said by one critic to rival Henry James
's Daisy Miller. Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus. 101 |
Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | Waiting for the Verdict received mixed reviews. Henry James
responded savagely in The Nation on 21 November 1867, assailing it for gloominess of tone and market-driven emotionalism of style. However, the literary editor of Lippincott's... |
Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The early Esmeralda was badly, but anonymously, reviewed by Henry James
in the Pall Mall Gazette. Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus. 208 |
Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | In her own time RHD
's writing was generally well received. But in a rather negative review of Waiting for the Verdict, Henry James
(the most prominent writer of her generation) not only gave... |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Henry James
's review in 1865 considered Braddon's success alongside that of Collins
, pronouncing her the founder of the sensation novel (defined as devising domestic mysteries adapted to the wants of a sternly prosaic... |
Literary responses | Violet Hunt | To varying degrees, critics have valued VH
's recollections of artistic contemporaries more than her style or other aspects of the memoirs. In a brief review in the Nation and Athenæum on 20 March 1926,... |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel prompted Henry James
to write to MAW
as a critic. They had met previously, and, indeed, the visit to the theatre that inspired the novel was made in his company. However, it was... |
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