Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Henry James
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Standard Name: James, Henry
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(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 | 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 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
Occupation | Sir Walter Besant | SWB
was a novelist, translator, editor, and journalist. For a short time, he worked as a professor at the Royal College
in Mauritius, but left to focus on his writing. Many of his works... |
Occupation | Julia Ward Howe | In 1877 JWH
set out with her daughter Maud on a two-year tour of Europe; at a time before women attended college, this was seen as a way for young women to recieve a... |
Performance of text | Dodie Smith | DS
made a disappointing return to London's West End with Letter from Paris, a play based on Henry James
's story The Reverberator. The Daily Mail's headline read, Ordeal to be there. Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 203 Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 186, 195, 203 |
Performance of text | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | RPJ
wrote her first screenplay based on a classic novel: The Europeans, adapted from Henry James
, which was shown at the CannesFilm Festival
. Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan. 240 Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams. 96, 198 |
Performance of text | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | RPJ
wrote for Merchant-Ivory ProductionsThe Bostonians: A Screenplay, from Henry James
's novel; the film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams. 199 Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan. 242, 240 |
Author summary | Sara Jeannette Duncan | SJD
was a Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist whose work spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her writing generally features characters who fail to live up to their own potential, such as Lorne... |
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