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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|---|---|---|
| Author summary | Edith Wharton | EW
, early twentieth-century novelist of American nationality, upper-middle-class status and subject-matter, and European cultural interests, has suffered in critical estimation by being ranked second to her friend and contemporary Henry James
. Writing through... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Rupert Brooke | More posthumous writing by RB
appeared: Letters from America (introduced by Henry James
), collecting articles mostly written for the Weekly Westminster Gazette, and the scholarly Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 110 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Mew | The story was rejected by The Yellow Book in January 1895 as too long (although they had recently printed a longer story by Henry James
). Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research. 309 Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, p. 240 pp. 69-70 |
| 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 |
| Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold
thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time... |
| Reception | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's work was also informed by other less-recognized sources, particularly Henry James
's The Ambassadors, 1903. After reading this, she called James's narrative approach the first completely satisfying way of writing a novel... |
| Reception | Vernon Lee | One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL
's work was John Addington Symonds
, a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | Her short stories have been compared to writings by Katherine Mansfield
, Henry James
, D. H. Lawrence
, and Saki
. |
| 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 |
| Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | Cyril Connolly
expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 78 |
| Reception | Ethel Sidgwick | These two books were much praised at their first appearance, and likened to the work of Henry James
. |
| Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event. Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xviii. vii |
| Reception | Willa Cather | WC
's own later comments on this book were somewhat grudging. It was conventional, she said, carefully arranged but unnecessary and superficial. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf. 92 |
| Residence | Rumer Godden | RG
moved to a different address in Rye: to Lamb House, the former home of Henry James
, a National Trust
house to which she came by invitation. Simpson, Hassell A. Rumer Godden. Twayne. 12, 29 |
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