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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Literary responses George Egerton
Both lauded and lambasted, GE was a sexually radical writer who challenged English reserve and literary reticence through the directness of her treatment of female desire.
Ledger, Sally. The New Woman. Manchester University Press.
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But after all her popularity and notoriety at...
Literary responses Lucas Malet
The Times review found the subject-matter of these stories derivative: now of Henry James , now of E. M. Forster , now of unnamed murder-mystery writers.She likes a revolver shot, not for any mystery...
Literary responses Sybille Bedford
Nancy Mitford called A Legacyone of the very best novels I've ever read.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin.
prelims
Evelyn Waugh called it entirely delicious . . . cool . . . elegant.
Dirda, Michael. “Sips from the finest vintage”. Guardian Weekly, p. 25.
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Reviewing a reprint for the...
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
The New York Times called this one of the three collaborators' best films as well as one of the best adaptations of a major literary work ever to come onto the screen.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams.
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This film...
Literary responses Dinah Mulock Craik
John Halifax was in such demand that DMC 's publishers, Hurst and Blackett , went through four sets of plates by 1858, and many other publishers put out editions on both sides of the Atlantic...
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.
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and Henry James declared in the North American Review that it was not...
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.
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owing to its sentimentality, but argues that the idealized portrait of a crippled man whose noble life it delineates makes physical disability a powerful figure for...
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.
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Dixon Scott wrote in the Liverpool Courier...
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 Isa Blagden
Henry James dismissed IB 's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster.
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys.
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IB 's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...
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.
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Through One Administration was faulted by some for its risqué and suspiciously personal subject-matter, though the Saturday Review...
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...

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