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,
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Henry James
's review in 1865 considered Braddon's success alongside that of Collins
, pronouncing her the founder of the sensation novel (defined as devising domestic mysteries adapted to the wants of a sternly prosaic... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Conflict (1903) features another wife murderer, as well as the minor character of Mr Jordan, based upon Henry James
. A Lost Eden (1904) rehearses some of MEB
's own childhood in its depiction... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | Her short stories have been compared to writings by Katherine Mansfield
, Henry James
, D. H. Lawrence
, and Saki
. |
| Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | Cyril Connolly
expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 78 |
| Leisure and Society | Isa Blagden | IB
was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was... |
| Literary responses | Isa Blagden | |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Bishop | The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB
's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker. White, Gillian. “Awful but Cheerful”. London Review of Books, pp. 8-10. 10 |
| Occupation | Sir Walter Besant | SWB
was a novelist, translator, editor, and journalist. For a short time, he worked as a professor at the Royal College
in Mauritius, but left to focus on his writing. Many of his works... |
| Literary responses | Sybille Bedford | Nancy Mitford
called A Legacyone of the very best novels I've ever read. Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin. prelims Dirda, Michael. “Sips from the finest vintage”. Guardian Weekly, p. 25. 25 |
| Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | EB
's other literary, cultural, and civic-minded friends included writers Henry James
, Walter Pater
, Walter Crane
(a moving spirit in the Arts and Crafts movement), and the philathropist and reformer Octavia Hill
(whose... |
| Literary responses | Beryl Bainbridge | Publishers rejecting the work had called the central characters repulsive beyond belief. 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. |
| Education | Lady Cynthia Asquith | It was perhaps her performance in Miss Jourdain's Greek lessons that caused her mother to send her to school. Apart from her slight taste of Cheltenham
, Cynthia's only experience of a proper school. was... |
| Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | In a review of Moods, Henry James
panned LMA
's ignorance of human nature, but did acknowledge a degree of cleverness in the author and a great deal of beauty in the writing. James, Henry. “Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Moods</span>, 1865”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, pp. 69-73. 73 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Joan Aiken | She presents this old house (home to successive writers: Henry James
, E. F. Benson
, and Rumer Godden
) as holding the story of a mysterious death in the later eighteenth century, which leaves... |
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