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 Production | Ford Madox Ford | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Forster | This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Reviews were extremely positive. Most expressed a sense of loss to English letters at EG
's recent death, and compared Wives and Daughters to her other well-loved book, Cranford. The Athenæum likened the style... |
Residence | Rumer Godden | RG
moved to a different address in Rye: to Lamb House, the former home of Henry James
, a National Trust
house to which she came by invitation. Simpson, Hassell A. Rumer Godden. Twayne. 12, 29 |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Radclyffe Hall | Violet Hunt acted as a literary mentor to RH
, who met many writers at Hunt's literary salons, including Henry James
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 57 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
knew and worked closely with the Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald
, though her early intense admiration for him diminished with time. Up to the year after publishing her book on him (which was also... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad, Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 7 |
Literary responses | Beatrice Harraden | This was BH
' own favourite among her works. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Miss Harraden’s New Story”. New York Times. |
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. 750 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH
also met Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, Henry James
, and Alfred Tennyson
(whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)... |
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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | John Oliver Hobbes | She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith
, Thomas Hardy
, Punch editor Owen Seaman
, William Archer |
Fictionalization | John Oliver Hobbes | A more positive portrait of JOH
can be read in the character of Milly Theale in Henry James
's The Wings of the Dove: Hobbes immediately recognised herself in Milly. Fictionalisations of her also... |
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