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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Textual Production | Ford Madox Ford | |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Novels adapted by MW
are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells
, aired on Radio 4
in 1984 and runner-up... |
Textual Production | Anita Brookner | AB
headed her latest novel, A Closed Eye, with a quotation from Madame de Mauves by Henry James
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Brookner, Anita. A Closed Eye. Random House. prelims |
Textual Production | Martin Ross | Martin's brother James
had already published hunting stories. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 116 |
Textual Production | Dodie Smith | While living in the United States, DS
contributed to a number of Hollywood screenplays. In 1944 she collaborated on The Uninvited, a classic haunted house story adapted from a novel by Dorothy Macardle
(for... |
Textual Production | George Egerton | One year after this The Yellow Book published a portrait of GE
by E. A. Walton
. Meanwhile the literary contributors to the first issue of the magazine included Henry James
, Max Beerbohm
,... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | The great parts written by QDL
have not been identified, let alone the weight of her input overall, and scholars are divided over her claims to substantial co-authorship. In the same year, 1995, Ian MacKillop |
Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | For Felony: The Private History of The Aspern Papers: A Novel, ET
used Henry James
's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson
, and Mary Shelley
's stepsister Claire Clairmont
as source for his novel. “Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction. |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | RW
published her first book of literary criticism, Henry James, six months after James
's death. Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library. 1 |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | ET
further pursued her interest in Henry James
by publishing a novel which constitutes a sustained allusion to The Turn of the Screw. She titled it The Beautiful Child. Wilson, Frances. “The Beautiful Child by Emma Tennant, review”. The Telegraph. |
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 |
Textual Features | George Eliot | While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The... |
Textual Features | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The script uses narrative by Gilot
in voice-over to supplement its dramatic settings and tense encounters between people. Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams. 247 |
Textual Features | Viola Meynell | |
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