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 | Radclyffe Hall | Violet Hunt acted as a literary mentor to RH
, who met many writers at Hunt's literary salons, including Henry James
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 57 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rudyard Kipling | RK
's mother was unenthusiastic about the marriage; his father showed his approval of Caroline's general competence by calling her a good man spoiled by her gender. Carrington, Charles. Rudyard Kipling. His Life and Work. Macmillan. 183 |
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 | 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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | George Eliot | By 1870 it was at last becoming common for married couples (like the scholar Mark Pattison
and his wife Emelia, or Emily Francis
) to visit GE
and her partner. Publisher Charles Kegan Paul
and... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH
also met Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, Henry James
, and Alfred Tennyson
(whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)... |
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)... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Beecher Stowe | HBS
developed a friendship with Oliver Wendell Holmes
. She also gained notoriety by supporting a young writer named Anna Dickinson
who caused a sensation by writing a novel which defended interracial marriage. This led... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | VL
began a friendship with Henry James
, which lasted about nine years. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 97, 195-7 |
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 |
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. |
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. 17 |
Friends, Associates | John Oliver Hobbes | She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith
, Thomas Hardy
, Punch editor Owen Seaman
, William Archer |
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