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.
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Friends, Associates | John Oliver Hobbes | She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith
, Thomas Hardy
, Punch editor Owen Seaman
, William Archer |
Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | Her parents, who were the friends of many literary and artistic people, introduced her to an impressive social circle. Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, William Michael Rossetti
, Thomas Hardy
, Walter Pater
,... |
Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | In addition to Henry James
and Walter Pater
, whom by now they regarded as old friends, they met there Marc André Raffalovich
, poet and pioneer writer on homosexuality, who was born in Paris... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill
in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone
and his wife
in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury |
Friends, Associates | Edith Wharton | EW
nurtured a number of literary friendships, though her shyness with strangers brought her the reputation of being cold. Her former governess, Anna Bahlmann
, who worked as her secretary, remained a close and important... |
Friends, Associates | Ford Madox Ford | Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown
after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells
, Joseph Conrad |
Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
's passion for creative gatherings was fostered on visits she made to the the home of Ethel Sands
and Nan Hudson
at Newington in Oxfordshire. She was deeply inspired by its lively intellectual... |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | FK
met Henry James
in Rome, and a friendship developed. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 220 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | Among those who frequented VH
's house there were some to whom she became especially close. Her long friendship with Henry James
dated back to July 1882. Apart from an estrangement during the scandal over... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's first few years in London brought her into contact with several important literary and theatre figures, including Henry James
, Oscar Wilde
, actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, and actress Ellen Terry
... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning
, Mary Cholmondeley
, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, Ford Madox Ford
, Thomas Hardy |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | ES
wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count... |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | While they were both in London, Henry James
visited FK
weekly. She was a friend from the later 1840s with Frances Power Cobbe
, from whose partner, Mary Lloyd
, she rented a house at... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | She met a number of important writers through her newspaper work. She associated with Alexander Macmillan
, Sir George Grove
, Edmund Gosse
and his wife Ellen
, John Morley
, and her uncle Matthew Arnold |
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 |
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