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,
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| Literary responses | Isa Blagden | |
| Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | A Fair Barbarian was said by one critic to rival Henry James
's Daisy Miller. Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus. 101 |
| Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | Waiting for the Verdict received mixed reviews. Henry James
responded savagely in The Nation on 21 November 1867, assailing it for gloominess of tone and market-driven emotionalism of style. However, the literary editor of Lippincott's... |
| Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The early Esmeralda was badly, but anonymously, reviewed by Henry James
in the Pall Mall Gazette. Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus. 208 |
| Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | In her own time RHD
's writing was generally well received. But in a rather negative review of Waiting for the Verdict, Henry James
(the most prominent writer of her generation) not only gave... |
| Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel prompted Henry James
to write to MAW
as a critic. They had met previously, and, indeed, the visit to the theatre that inspired the novel was made in his company. However, it was... |
| Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | Positive reviews praised EW
's masterful description of the B.C. interior. A reviewer in the Chicago Sunday Tribune wrote: Rarely in recent reading have I encountered an author who has transferred her love and understanding... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Reviews were extremely positive. Most expressed a sense of loss to English letters at EG
's recent death, and compared Wives and Daughters to her other well-loved book, Cranford. The Athenæum likened the style... |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Henry James
's review in 1865 considered Braddon's success alongside that of Collins
, pronouncing her the founder of the sensation novel (defined as devising domestic mysteries adapted to the wants of a sternly prosaic... |
| Literary responses | Violet Hunt | To varying degrees, critics have valued VH
's recollections of artistic contemporaries more than her style or other aspects of the memoirs. In a brief review in the Nation and Athenæum on 20 March 1926,... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Inchbald | A Simple Story was praised by no less a modern authority than Q. D. Leavis
, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (8 September 1989): 964 |
| Literary responses | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
's interest in the interaction of different national cultures, and in the issue of what it means to be English, caused some commentators to liken her to Henry James
. R. Brimley Johnson
in... |
| Literary responses | Fanny Kemble | Henry James
characterized these memoirs as an overflow of conversation. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 229 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | It is almost impossible to calculate MO
's lifetime earnings as an author: she used various different publishers, and borrowed money from them as well as waiting to be paid. But it seems from the... |
| Literary responses | Fanny Kemble | Henry James
remarked on her achievement: To write one's first novel at the age of eighty is a thing which could have happened only to a woman who has done everything, all her life, just... |
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