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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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 Fanny Kemble
Henry James characterized these memoirs as an overflow of conversation.
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He also recorded FK 's own reaction to the work's public acceptance: Her book . . . has been quite an immense success here...
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 Elizabeth Inchbald
A Simple Story was praised by no less a modern authority than Q. D. Leavis ,
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and received a more recent accolade from Terry Castle as the most elegant English fiction...
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 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...
Literary responses Mary Augusta Ward
Henry James disliked this tale. It was well received by reviewers; the Critic hailed MAW as the greatest woman novelist of her day.
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Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press.
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Literary responses Willa Cather
This volume was badly received. Cather sent a copy to Henry James , whom at this date she much admired. As Tillie Olsen later pointed out indignantly, he never replied. To an enquiry from a...
Literary responses Mary Augusta Ward
MAW 's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith , Sir J. M. Barrie , and Henry James. James wrote to her...
Literary responses Mary Augusta Ward
James 's admiring response admitted his own irresistible urge to recast the novels of other people. He also opined to MAW that you had done nothing more homogeneous, nor more hanging and moving together. It...
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...

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