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,
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Dodie Smith
DS made a disappointing return to London's West End with Letter from Paris, a play based on Henry James 's story The Reverberator. The Daily Mail's headline read, Ordeal to be there.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
203
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
186, 195, 203
Performance of text Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ wrote her first screenplay based on a classic novel: The Europeans, adapted from Henry James , which was shown at the CannesFilm Festival .
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan.
240
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams.
96, 198
Performance of text Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ wrote for Merchant-Ivory ProductionsThe Bostonians: A Screenplay, from Henry James 's novel; the film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams.
199
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan.
242, 240
Occupation Sir Walter Besant
SWB was a novelist, translator, editor, and journalist. For a short time, he worked as a professor at the Royal College in Mauritius, but left to focus on his writing. Many of his works...
Occupation Julia Ward Howe
In 1877 JWH set out with her daughter Maud on a two-year tour of Europe; at a time before women attended college, this was seen as a way for young women to recieve a...
Material Conditions of Writing Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
This followed RPJ 's script for screening her own Heat and Dust, 1983. The film of The Bostonians was originally intended to conclude a series of five programmes for WGBH television of Boston...
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
But after all her popularity and notoriety at...
Literary responses Lucas Malet
The Times review found the subject-matter of these stories derivative: now of Henry James , now of E. M. Forster , now of unnamed murder-mystery writers.She likes a revolver shot, not for any mystery...
Literary responses Sybille Bedford
Nancy Mitford called A Legacyone of the very best novels I've ever read.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin.
prelims
Evelyn Waugh called it entirely delicious . . . cool . . . elegant.
Dirda, Michael. “Sips from the finest vintage”. Guardian Weekly, p. 25.
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Reviewing a reprint for the...
Literary responses Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The New York Times called this one of the three collaborators' best films as well as one of the best adaptations of a major literary work ever to come onto the screen.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams.
137
This film...
Literary responses Dinah Mulock Craik
John Halifax was in such demand that DMC 's publishers, Hurst and Blackett , went through four sets of plates by 1858, and many other publishers put out editions on both sides of the Atlantic...
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 Patricia Highsmith
Critic Bob Wake discusses Highsmith's complex point-of-view techniques—a literary style begun by Henry James —and her modelling The Talented Mr Ripley on his novel The Ambassadors (1903). He notes her humorous plays on the James...
Literary responses Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Updike again complained about RPJ 's refusal of sympathy to her characters. Robert Towers went further: linking this with Jhabvala's gender and (British) nationality, he accused her of revelling in her characters' discomfiture and degradation...
Literary responses Dinah Mulock Craik
Sally Mitchell characterizes it as embarrassing to read
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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owing to its sentimentality, but argues that the idealized portrait of a crippled man whose noble life it delineates makes physical disability a powerful figure for...

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