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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Travel Rhoda Broughton
She made some trips abroad, but apparently not for extended periods. A visit to Algeria in the 1880s seems to have provided the setting for her novel Alas!, and she spent time with her...
Travel Edith Wharton
EW was accustomed from childhood to European travel and even to living in Europe for years at a time. She and her husband spent something like half of every year abroad.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
From February to April...
Travel Margaret Oliphant
MO holidayed in Venice, where she met Henry James .
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
120
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emma Tennant
ET imagines that James in The Aspern Papers has done what she herself is doing: fictionalizing an actual situation from literary history. Part of the novel moves back from the later to the earlier nineteenth...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Forster
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells against Henry James in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ella Hepworth Dixon
In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Conflict (1903) features another wife murderer, as well as the minor character of Mr Jordan, based upon Henry James . A Lost Eden (1904) rehearses some of MEB 's own childhood in its depiction...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sophia Jex-Blake
SJB 's review is largely informational. It covers works of fiction including New Grooves by Annie Thomas , A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade , Dr. Edith Romney by Anne Elliot , Doctor Zay by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Agnes Hamilton
Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Christine Brooke-Rose
The subjects of CBR 's exploration here are the idea of genre, science fiction in relation to realism, the act of interpretation, and syntactic complementarity. Brooke-Rose considers these issues in relation to the fictional...
Textual Production Vernon Lee
By this date, according to Julia Briggs , she had already fallen under the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Marble Faun, 1860, (an influence she shared with Henry James ).
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber.
113, 119
Textual Production George Eliot
The previous year young William Blackwood reported her anxiety and reluctance at the prospect of having the manuscript of this first part taken from her, as if it were her baby.
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
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Henry James
Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 37-43.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...
Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
ER published Theatre and Friendship: Some Henry James Letters, a collection of her letters from James .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
96, 231-2, 245
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1589 (14 July 1932): 512

Timeline

9 November 1857: The first issue appeared of the US magazine...

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9 November 1857

The first issue appeared of the US magazineAtlantic Monthly. It set out to provide articles of an abstract and permanent value, while not ignoring the healthy appetite of the mind for entertainment in...

1878: William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald...

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1878

William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald Allen formed a partnership in the publishing firm of Swan Sonnenschein and Allen , at 15 Paternoster Square, London.

1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...

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1907

Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson acquired the weekly reviewNew Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 33-5.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Orage
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4-22 May 1914: Militant suffragettes slashed several paintings...

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4-22 May 1914

Militant suffragettes slashed several paintings at the Royal Academy and the National Gallery , including Sargent 's portrait of Henry James .

From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...

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From early summer 1915

Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.

10 April 1925: US author F. Scott Fitzgerald published his...

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10 April 1925

US author F. Scott Fitzgerald published his novelThe Great Gatsby, which probes the consequences of success in the competitive pursuit of the great American dream. Zelda Fitzgerald came up with the title for...

By 20 September 1953: Saul Bellow published The Adventures of Augie...

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By 20 September 1953

Saul Bellow published The Adventures of Augie March. Martin Amis , in later hailing this as the first American novel to show an immigrant as a rightful Discoverer, or a pioneer,
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
21 October 2008

15 April 2003: Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading...

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15 April 2003

Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, a remarkable work of social and political commentary intertwined with and expressed through literary criticism.

Texts

James, Henry. Daisy Miller. Harper and Brothers, 1878.
James, Henry. Guy Domville. J. Miles & Co., 1894.
James, Henry. Henry James Letters 1883-1895. Editor Edel, Leon, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980.
Brooke, Rupert, and Henry James. Letters From America. Editor Marsh, Edward, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1916.
James, Henry, and Pierre de Chaignon la Rose. Notes and Reviews. Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
James, Henry. “Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Moods</span>, 1865”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, 1984, pp. 69-73.
James, Henry. Roderick Hudson. James R. Osgood, 1876.
James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Methuen, 1903.
James, Henry. The American. Ward Lock & Co., 1877.
Besant, Sir Walter, and Henry James. The Art of Fiction. Cupples and Hurd, 1884.
James, Henry. The Aspern Papers. Macmillan, 1888.
James, Henry. The Awkward Age. Heinemann, 1899.
James, Henry. The Bostonians. Macmillan, 1886.
James, Henry. The Golden Bowl. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904.
James, Henry. The Middle Years. W. Collins Sons, 1917.
James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. Macmillan, 1881.
James, Henry. The Wings of the Dove. Archibald Constable & Co., 1902.
James, Henry. Theatre and Friendship. Editor Robins, Elizabeth, J. Cape, 1932.
James, Henry. Watch and Ward. Houghton, Osgood, 1878.
James, Henry. What Maisie Knew. William Heinemann, 1897.