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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Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | Her younger brother, Harry
, gained a different kind of notoriety as a young man when he fell in love with a woman of superior social class; this story was retold by Henry James
in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56. 34 |
Fictionalization | John Oliver Hobbes | A more positive portrait of JOH
can be read in the character of Milly Theale in Henry James
's The Wings of the Dove: Hobbes immediately recognised herself in Milly. Fictionalisations of her also... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Since VW
moved in a variety of social circles, her range of literary acquaintance was very wide. Her associates included such established, celebrated writers as Thomas Hardy and Henry James
, popular authors such as... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Orne Jewett | SOJ
had a broad social circle. She belonged to an artistic community of women that included Celia Thaxter
and Louise Guiney
, and counted Harriet Beecher Stowe
(whose funeral she and Annie Fields
attended in... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
knew and worked closely with the Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald
, though her early intense admiration for him diminished with time. Up to the year after publishing her book on him (which was also... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cholmondeley | According to Percy Lubbock
, MC
and her sisters entertained often and were charming and successful hostesses. Mary was nevertheless said to be a shy and modest woman who, while she found writing tedious, enjoyed... |
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 | Agatha Christie | The Millers entertained frequently and lavishly at their home. Among the guests at Ashfield were Rudyard Kipling
and Henry James
. Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS. 11-13 Christie, Agatha. An Autobiography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS. 50 |
Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird
, E. Nesbit
, Mathilde Blind
, Amy Levy
, and Alice Meynell
. She was also a friend of William Sharp
, Austin Dobson |
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 | 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)... |
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... |
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