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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Vernon Lee
VL published her collection Vanitas, Polite Stories. This volume includes the story Lady Tal, which ended the author's friendship with Henry James .
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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Textual Production Vernon Lee
By this date, according to Julia Briggs , she had already fallen under the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Marble Faun, 1860, (an influence she shared with Henry James ).
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber.
113, 119
Reception Vernon Lee
One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL 's work was John Addington Symonds , a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other...
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
The text has recently been re-issued by Valancourt Books .
Reception Vernon Lee
This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde (refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane and William Morris
Friends, Associates Ada Leverson
By the 1920s most of AL 's earlier friends were either dead or living abroad. But she was sought out by the novelists Somerset Maugham and Ronald Firbank , and by Wilde's younger son, Vyvyan Holland
Textual Features Ada Leverson
In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers...
Publishing Amy Levy
AL had requested for it a binding like that of The Aspern Papers: double gold lines and dark cloth very nicely got up, but dark red instead of the James volume's blue.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
149
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Leisure and Society Eliza Lynn Linton
She enjoyed going to and hosting prominent literary and social receptions. Her guests included a wide range of people: popular writers such as Rudyard Kipling , Marie Corelli , and Frank Harris ; luminaries of...
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Lynn Linton
Critic Terry Castle calls this a strange, acidulous tale . . . one of her most fascinating and tormented works. . . . it remains, a century later, a mordant, rebarbative, yet peculiarly affecting work...
Literary responses Penelope Lively
Fay Weldon calls this novel James ian . . . in its complexities and its carefulness.
Lively, Penelope. Heat Wave. HarperPerennial.
back cover
Friends, Associates Marie Belloc Lowndes
Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith , Rhoda Broughton , and Henry James . She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house...
Friends, Associates Lucas Malet
LM was a friend for much of her life of the novelist Emma Marshall , who was also a friend of her mother. On Marshall's death in 1899 she wrote: The thought of her has...
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...
Friends, Associates Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
MHVR 's friends included novelist Elizabeth Robins , Theodora Bosanquet (spokesperson for British Federation of University Women and one-time secretary of Henry James ), MP Ellen Wilkinson (despite of their different stance on party politics)...

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