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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Martin Ross | Martin's brother James
had already published hunting stories. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 116 |
| Textual Production | Dodie Smith | While living in the United States, DS
contributed to a number of Hollywood screenplays. In 1944 she collaborated on The Uninvited, a classic haunted house story adapted from a novel by Dorothy Macardle
(for... |
| Textual Production | George Egerton | One year after this The Yellow Book published a portrait of GE
by E. A. Walton
. Meanwhile the literary contributors to the first issue of the magazine included Henry James
, Max Beerbohm
,... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Tennant | ET
imagines that James
in The Aspern Papers has done what she herself is doing: fictionalizing an actual situation from literary history. Part of the novel moves back from the later to the earlier nineteenth... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Forster | This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ella Hepworth Dixon | In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith
, Margaret Kennedy
(particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim
, and Violet Hunt
. Authors who receive whole... |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Storm Jameson | Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield
, Conrad
, Hardy
, and James
, along with Willa Cather
and Sinclair Lewis
. However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
's review is largely informational. It covers works of fiction including New Grooves by Annie Thomas
, A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
, Dr. Edith Romney by Anne Elliot
, Doctor Zay by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad, Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 7 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Travel | Edith Wharton | EW
was accustomed from childhood to European travel and even to living in Europe for years at a time. She and her husband spent something like half of every year abroad. 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. |
| Travel | Margaret Oliphant | MO
holidayed in Venice, where she met Henry James
. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 120 |
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