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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Vernon Lee | VL
dedicated to Henry Jamesfor good luck, [her] first attempt at a novel. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 97 |
Reception | Vernon Lee | This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde
(refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane
and William Morris |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | Lady Tal features Jervase Marion, a character (or caricature) whose life is suffocated by his devotion to his art. He is balding, overweight, a dainty but frugal bachelor who takes the position of dispassioned spectator... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | VL
began a friendship with Henry James
, which lasted about nine years. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 97, 195-7 |
Textual Production | Vernon Lee | VL
published her collection Vanitas, Polite Stories. This volume includes the story Lady Tal, which ended the author's friendship with Henry James
. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 192-6 |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | By the 1920s most of AL
's earlier friends were either dead or living abroad. But she was sought out by the novelists Somerset Maugham
and Ronald Firbank
, and by Wilde's younger son, Vyvyan Holland |
Textual Features | Ada Leverson | In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers... |
Publishing | Amy Levy | AL
had requested for it a binding like that of The Aspern Papers: double gold lines and dark cloth very nicely got up, but dark red instead of the James
volume's blue. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press. 149 |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | She enjoyed going to and hosting prominent literary and social receptions. Her guests included a wide range of people: popular writers such as Rudyard Kipling
, Marie Corelli
, and Frank Harris
; luminaries of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Lynn Linton | Critic Terry Castle
calls this a strange, acidulous tale . . . one of her most fascinating and tormented works. . . . it remains, a century later, a mordant, rebarbative, yet peculiarly affecting work... |
Literary responses | Penelope Lively | Fay Weldon
calls this novel James
ian . . . in its complexities and its carefulness. Lively, Penelope. Heat Wave. HarperPerennial. back cover |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith
, Rhoda Broughton
, and Henry James
. She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house... |
Friends, Associates | Lucas Malet | LM
was a friend for much of her life of the novelist Emma Marshall
, who was also a friend of her mother. On Marshall's death in 1899 she wrote: The thought of her has... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
's friends included novelist Elizabeth Robins
, Theodora Bosanquet
(spokesperson for British Federation of University Women
and one-time secretary of Henry James
), MP Ellen Wilkinson
(despite of their different stance on party politics)... |
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