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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Charlotte Mew
In the mid-1890s, CM attended literary gatherings at the home of Henry Harland , editor of The Yellow Book. Other writers who attended included Evelyn Sharp , Netta Syrett , Max Beerbohm , Kenneth Grahame
Publishing Charlotte Mew
The story was rejected by The Yellow Book in January 1895 as too long (although they had recently printed a longer story by Henry James ).
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research.
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Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, p. 240 pp.
69-70
After this CM stopped submitting work to...
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.
222-3
Dixon Scott wrote in the Liverpool Courier...
Textual Features Viola Meynell
This includes letters from Charlotte Mew , Henry James , and Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson .
Friends, Associates Lady Ottoline Morrell
LOM 's passion for creative gatherings was fostered on visits she made to the the home of Ethel Sands and Nan Hudson at Newington in Oxfordshire. She was deeply inspired by its lively intellectual...
Textual Features E. Nesbit
EN shows her versatility. The stories in Homespun are largely written in Kentish dialect, while those in The Literary Sense, 1903, aspire to aesthetics and James ian self-consciousness.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
175
Travel Margaret Oliphant
MO holidayed in Venice, where she met Henry James .
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
120
Friends, Associates Margaret Oliphant
MO 's family and Ritchie went on together to Grindelwald, where Leslie and Harriet Stephen (nicknamed Minnie), Ritchie's sister and brother-in-law, joined them.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
104-5
Henry James was another acquaintance she made on holiday, a few years later.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
120
Literary responses Margaret Oliphant
It is almost impossible to calculate MO 's lifetime earnings as an author: she used various different publishers, and borrowed money from them as well as waiting to be paid. But it seems from the...
Intertextuality and Influence Sylvia Plath
This poem, which reflects her reading in Henry James , Scott Fitzgerald , and Charles Baudelaire , expresses whimsical regret that the days of ogres and dragons, perils and combat, knights and princesses, have passed.
Plath, Sylvia. “Ennui”. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, Vol.
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Friends, Associates Ezra Pound
During his time in London, EP met his future wife Dorothy Shakespear , as well as Henry James , Ford Madox Ford , Wyndham Lewis , and W. B. Yeats . He also met...
Family and Intimate relationships Adelaide Procter
AP 's mother, born Anne Skepper , was a clever and observant woman, a frequent and influential hostess to the London literary elite. Frances Kemble considered her notable for her pungent epigrams and brilliant sallies...
Friends, Associates Adelaide Procter
AP 's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt , William Hazlitt , Thomas Moore , Wordsworth , Tennyson , Longfellow , and Henry James . Intimates of the household included...
Reception Dorothy Richardson
DR 's work was also informed by other less-recognized sources, particularly Henry James 's The Ambassadors, 1903. After reading this, she called James's narrative approach the first completely satisfying way of writing a novel...
Friends, Associates Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR lived with the Stephens after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith , Henry James (who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)...

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