Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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,
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | Catherine Carswell | Catherine Macfarlane (later CC
) was born on top of a steep, grey, stony hill in and overlooking that seat of discipline—as Henry James
has called it—the city of Glasgow. Carswell, Catherine. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography and Other Posthumous Papers. Editor Carswell, John, 1st ed., Secker and Warburg, 1950. 15 Royle, Trevor. The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Macmillan Reference Books, 1983. 61 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Colin Campbell | Other members of the Charcoal Club
included Gertrude Blood's friend Lizzie Boott
(who finally married Duveneck in 1886, overcoming the scepticism of her friends because of her greater wealth and higher social position), Miss Gordan |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Colin Campbell | Considered déclassée by high society, LCC
found her way into more liberal, artistic circles. She associated with the artist Whistler
(who painted a portrait, now lost) and with writers George Bernard Shaw
and Henry James |
| Education | Dorothy Bussy | Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre
. Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill
in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone
and his wife
in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury |
| Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | A Fair Barbarian was said by one critic to rival Henry James
's Daisy Miller. Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 101 |
| Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The early Esmeralda was badly, but anonymously, reviewed by Henry James
in the Pall Mall Gazette. Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 208 |
| Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | In later years when she was housebound with arthritis, Henry James
would visit RB
every afternoon when he was in London. When he was not, he would write every day. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971. 17 |
| Travel | Rhoda Broughton | She made some trips abroad, but apparently not for extended periods. A visit to Algeria in the 1880s seems to have provided the setting for her novel Alas!, and she spent time with her... |
| Textual Production | Anita Brookner | AB
headed her latest novel, A Closed Eye, with a quotation from Madame de Mauves by Henry James
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Brookner, Anita. A Closed Eye. Random House, 1991. prelims |
| Textual Features | Anita Brookner | The novels have been said to owe more to the French tradition than to the English—though French critics have read her as belonging to an English women's tradition, while English reviewers have cited most frequently... |
| Literary responses | Anita Brookner | There was some astonishment in the media when this novel won the Booker Prize (although it was up against J. G. Ballard
's Empire of the Sun. The book itself significantly boosted AB
's literary... |
| Literary responses | Anita Brookner | Reviewer Dinah Birch
discerned in this book and in AB
's work generally severe taste conceal[ing] an expansively James
ian aestheticism. Birch, Dinah. “Wintry Lessons”. London Review of Books, 27 June 2002, pp. 30-1. 30 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christine Brooke-Rose | The subjects of CBR
's exploration here are the idea of genre, science fiction in relation to realism, the act of interpretation, and syntactic complementarity. Brooke-Rose considers these issues in relation to the fictional... |
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