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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Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson |
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... |
Author summary | Sara Jeannette Duncan | SJD
was a Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist whose work spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her writing generally features characters who fail to live up to their own potential, such as Lorne... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sara Jeannette Duncan | |
Literary responses | Sara Jeannette Duncan | SJD
sent a copy of this work to Henry James
, who replied: I think your drama lacks a little line—bony structure and palpable, as it were, tense cord—on which to string the pearls of... |
Textual Features | Sara Jeannette Duncan | Critic Rosemary Sullivan
sees in these stories the influence of Henry James
. Sullivan, Rosemary, and Sara Jeannette Duncan. “Introduction”. The Pool in the Desert, edited by Gillian Siddall and Gillian Siddall, Broadview, pp. 11-22. 14 |
Literary responses | George Egerton | Both lauded and lambasted, GE
was a sexually radical writer who challenged English reserve and literary reticence through the directness of her treatment of female desire. Ledger, Sally. The New Woman. Manchester University Press. 188 |
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
,... |
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... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | John Morley
, anonymously in the Saturday Review, noted that [o]ne of the puzzles, which runs pathetically through Felix Holt as through Romola and the The Mill on the Floss, is the evil... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | This work was quite well reviewed, though Richard Holt Hutton
wrote that GE
found verse a fetter, and not a stimulus, Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 294 |
Textual Features | George Eliot | While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The... |
Textual Production | George Eliot | The previous year young William Blackwood
reported her anxiety and reluctance at the prospect of having the manuscript of this first part taken from her, as if it were her baby. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 6: 136 |
Birth | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit)
was born at a manor called Brede Place (formerly Forde Place), at the village of Brede in East Sussex, into a family of five children (as well as an... |
Friends, Associates | Ford Madox Ford | Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown
after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells
, Joseph Conrad |
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