Carl Rollyson

According to West's biographer Carl Rollyson , its heroine, Isabelle Terry, may have been created in response to Henry James 's portrayal of Isabel Archer in The Portrait of A Lady, which RW had...

Her psychoanalysis uncovered apparent memories of sexual violation by her father. Her biographer Carl Rollyson comments that RW 's notes from this time exhibit the delayed, fragmentary reactions common in cases of sexual abuse, but...