Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
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, 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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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | RW
published her first book of literary criticism, Henry James, six months after James
's death. Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca West | It was first serialised in Century magazine. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 49 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca West | According to West's biographer Carl Rollyson
, its heroine, Isabelle Terry, may have been created in response to Henry James
's portrayal of Isabel Archer in The Portrait of A Lady, which RW
had... |
Textual Features | Edith Wharton | It represents (in a highly James
ian manner) the clash of national cultures through the experience of the young American widow of a French aristocrat. Her dead husband's relations use the custody of her son... |
Author summary | Edith Wharton | EW
, early twentieth-century novelist of American nationality, upper-middle-class status and subject-matter, and European cultural interests, has suffered in critical estimation by being ranked second to her friend and contemporary Henry James
. Writing through... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Wharton | EW
nurtured a number of literary friendships, though her shyness with strangers brought her the reputation of being cold. Her former governess, Anna Bahlmann
, who worked as her secretary, remained a close and important... |
Travel | Edith Wharton | EW
was accustomed from childhood to European travel and even to living in Europe for years at a time. She and her husband spent something like half of every year abroad. 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. |
Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | Positive reviews praised EW
's masterful description of the B.C. interior. A reviewer in the Chicago Sunday Tribune wrote: Rarely in recent reading have I encountered an author who has transferred her love and understanding... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56. 34 |
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
,... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Since VW
moved in a variety of social circles, her range of literary acquaintance was very wide. Her associates included such established, celebrated writers as Thomas Hardy and Henry James
, popular authors such as... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | This is the first of Woolf's a London novels, and is set unambiguously in the recent past, in the period of the suffrage struggle before the first world war. It is a story of courtship... |
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