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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Intertextuality and Influence Joan Aiken
She presents this old house (home to successive writers: Henry James , E. F. Benson , and Rumer Godden ) as holding the story of a mysterious death in the later eighteenth century, which leaves...
Literary responses Louisa May Alcott
In a review of Moods, Henry James panned LMA 's ignorance of human nature, but did acknowledge a degree of cleverness in the author and a great deal of beauty in the writing.
James, Henry. “Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Moods</span>, 1865”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, pp. 69-73.
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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...
Literary responses Beryl Bainbridge
Publishers rejecting the work had called the central characters repulsive beyond belief.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Susannah Clapp has called it as powerful an account of corruption as Henry JamesThe Turn of the Screw . . . . sleek but...
Friends, Associates Emilie Barrington
EB 's other literary, cultural, and civic-minded friends included writers Henry James , Walter Pater , Walter Crane (a moving spirit in the Arts and Crafts movement), and the philathropist and reformer Octavia Hill (whose...
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...
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Bishop
The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB 's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker.
White, Gillian. “Awful but Cheerful”. London Review of Books, pp. 8-10.
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The passages...
Leisure and Society Isa Blagden
IB was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
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...
Reception Elizabeth Bowen
Her short stories have been compared to writings by Katherine Mansfield , Henry James , D. H. Lawrence , and Saki .
Reception Elizabeth Bowen
Cyril Connolly expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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The Hotel was the April 1928 selection of the fairly new Book-of-the-Month Club in...
Friends, Associates Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning , Mary Cholmondeley , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Ford Madox Ford , Thomas Hardy
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Conflict (1903) features another wife murderer, as well as the minor character of Mr Jordan, based upon Henry James . A Lost Eden (1904) rehearses some of MEB 's own childhood in its depiction...

Timeline

9 November 1857: The first issue appeared of the US magazine...

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9 November 1857

The first issue appeared of the US magazineAtlantic Monthly. It set out to provide articles of an abstract and permanent value, while not ignoring the healthy appetite of the mind for entertainment in...

1878: William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald...

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1878

William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald Allen formed a partnership in the publishing firm of Swan Sonnenschein and Allen , at 15 Paternoster Square, London.

1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...

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1907

Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson acquired the weekly reviewNew Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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4-22 May 1914: Militant suffragettes slashed several paintings...

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4-22 May 1914

Militant suffragettes slashed several paintings at the Royal Academy and the National Gallery , including Sargent 's portrait of Henry James .

From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...

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From early summer 1915

Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.

10 April 1925: US author F. Scott Fitzgerald published his...

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10 April 1925

US author F. Scott Fitzgerald published his novelThe Great Gatsby, which probes the consequences of success in the competitive pursuit of the great American dream. Zelda Fitzgerald came up with the title for...

By 20 September 1953: Saul Bellow published The Adventures of Augie...

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By 20 September 1953

Saul Bellow published The Adventures of Augie March. Martin Amis , in later hailing this as the first American novel to show an immigrant as a rightful Discoverer, or a pioneer,
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
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15 April 2003: Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading...

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15 April 2003

Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, a remarkable work of social and political commentary intertwined with and expressed through literary criticism.

Texts

James, Henry. Daisy Miller. Harper and Brothers, 1878.
James, Henry. Guy Domville. J. Miles & Co., 1894.
James, Henry. Henry James Letters 1883-1895. Editor Edel, Leon, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980.
Brooke, Rupert, and Henry James. Letters From America. Editor Marsh, Edward, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1916.
James, Henry, and Pierre de Chaignon la Rose. Notes and Reviews. Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
James, Henry. “Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Moods</span>, 1865”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, 1984, pp. 69-73.
James, Henry. Roderick Hudson. James R. Osgood, 1876.
James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Methuen, 1903.
James, Henry. The American. Ward Lock & Co., 1877.
Besant, Sir Walter, and Henry James. The Art of Fiction. Cupples and Hurd, 1884.
James, Henry. The Aspern Papers. Macmillan, 1888.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Heinemann, 1899.
James, Henry. The Bostonians. Macmillan, 1886.
James, Henry. The Golden Bowl. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904.
James, Henry. The Middle Years. W. Collins Sons, 1917.
James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. Macmillan, 1881.
James, Henry. The Wings of the Dove. Archibald Constable & Co., 1902.
James, Henry. Theatre and Friendship. Editor Robins, Elizabeth, J. Cape, 1932.
James, Henry. Watch and Ward. Houghton, Osgood, 1878.
James, Henry. What Maisie Knew. William Heinemann, 1897.