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,
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
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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Textual Production Emma Tennant
ET further pursued her interest in Henry James by publishing a novel which constitutes a sustained allusion to The Turn of the Screw. She titled it The Beautiful Child.
Wilson, Frances. “The Beautiful Child by Emma Tennant, review”. The Telegraph.
Textual Production Vernon Lee
VL published her collection Vanitas, Polite Stories. This volume includes the story Lady Tal, which ended the author's friendship with Henry James .
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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Textual Production Vernon Lee
By this date, according to Julia Briggs , she had already fallen under the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Marble Faun, 1860, (an influence she shared with Henry James ).
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber.
113, 119
Textual Production George Eliot
The previous year young William Blackwood reported her anxiety and reluctance at the prospect of having the manuscript of this first part taken from her, as if it were her baby.
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 37-43.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...
Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
ER published Theatre and Friendship: Some Henry James Letters, a collection of her letters from James .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
96, 231-2, 245
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1589 (14 July 1932): 512
Textual Production Ford Madox Ford
FMF published a volume of art criticism, Rossetti : A Critical Essay on His Art, in 1902. He followed this with a work of social criticism, The Soul of London, 1905, which he...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...
Textual Production Anita Brookner
AB headed her latest novel, A Closed Eye, with a quotation from Madame de Mauves by Henry James .
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Brookner, Anita. A Closed Eye. Random House.
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Textual Production Martin Ross
Martin's brother James had already published hunting stories.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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But it was J. B. Pinker , one of the first literary agents in London, who told her and Somerville that he could easily place...
Textual Production Dodie Smith
While living in the United States, DS contributed to a number of Hollywood screenplays. In 1944 she collaborated on The Uninvited, a classic haunted house story adapted from a novel by Dorothy Macardle (for...
Textual Production George Egerton
One year after this The Yellow Book published a portrait of GE by E. A. Walton . Meanwhile the literary contributors to the first issue of the magazine included Henry James , Max Beerbohm ,...
Textual Features Beatrice Harraden
They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions.
Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750.
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They specify some of the material they have already collected from other authors and publishers to sell on...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
In addition to poems from all her previous volumes, the book includes The Story of Marpessa, which first appeared in the Universal Review in September 1889. This poem is a critique of marriage adapted...
Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
This was the first novel of DMC 's in which the motif of disability—her predilection for cripples and invalids
Showalter, Elaine. “Dinah Mulock Craik and the Tactics of Sentiment: A Case Study in Victorian Female Authorship”. Feminist Studies, Vol.
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, pp. 5-23.
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as Henry James patronisingly called it in 1866—appeared. According to critic Cora Kaplan , this...

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