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,
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| Family and Intimate relationships | Rudyard Kipling | RK
's mother was unenthusiastic about the marriage; his father showed his approval of Caroline's general competence by calling her a good man spoiled by her gender. Carrington, Charles. Rudyard Kipling. His Life and Work. Macmillan. 183 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's mother, born Anne Skepper
, was a clever and observant woman, a frequent and influential hostess to the London literary elite. Frances Kemble
considered her notable for her pungent epigrams and brilliant sallies... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | The Roths were devastated by their daughter's decision to marry a gentile. They disowned her and ceased to give her any financial support. However, this period had its happy moments as well. Q. D. introduced... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Stevenson | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Oliver Hobbes | John Morgan Richards
, a successful businessman, was the son of a clergyman. In his earlier adulthood he travelled extensively as a salesman. One trip, accompanied by his wife, took him as far as San... |
| Education | Dorothy Bussy | Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre
. Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain |
| Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
| Education | Lady Cynthia Asquith | It was perhaps her performance in Miss Jourdain's Greek lessons that caused her mother to send her to school. Apart from her slight taste of Cheltenham
, Cynthia's only experience of a proper school. was... |
| Education | Q. D. Leavis | Queenie also was known for her bookish habits: her tastes ran especially to Henry James
, along with the journals the New Statesman, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and Time and... |
| Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot
, Thomas Hardy
, Charles Dickens
, and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust
, James Joyce
, Henry James |
| Dedications | Vernon Lee | VL
dedicated to Henry Jamesfor good luck, [her] first attempt at a novel. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 97 |
| death | Fanny Kemble | Her funeral was arranged for 20 January, and she was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Henry James
published a forty-page essay by way of eulogy in Temple Bar. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 260, 261 |
| Birth | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit)
was born at a manor called Brede Place (formerly Forde Place), at the village of Brede in East Sussex, into a family of five children (as well as an... |
| Birth | Catherine Carswell | Catherine Macfarlane (later CC
) was born on top of a steep, grey, stony hill in and overlooking that seat of discipline—as Henry James
has called it—the city of Glasgow. Carswell, Catherine. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography and Other Posthumous Papers. Editor Carswell, John, Secker and Warburg. 15 Royle, Trevor. The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Macmillan Reference Books. 61 |
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