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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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... |
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... |
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... |
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. 5 , No. 2. |
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 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... |
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 |
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... |
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 |
Textual Features | Viola Meynell | |
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. 309 Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, p. 240 pp. 69-70 |
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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