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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Lady Colin Campbell
Other members of the Charcoal Club included Gertrude Blood's friend Lizzie Boott (who finally married Duveneck in 1886, overcoming the scepticism of her friends because of her greater wealth and higher social position), Miss Gordan
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
Friends, Associates Margaret Oliphant
MO 's family and Ritchie went on together to Grindelwald, where Leslie and Harriet Stephen (nicknamed Minnie), Ritchie's sister and brother-in-law, joined them.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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Henry James was another acquaintance she made on holiday, a few years later.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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Friends, Associates Lady Colin Campbell
Considered déclassée by high society, LCC found her way into more liberal, artistic circles. She associated with the artist Whistler (who painted a portrait, now lost) and with writers George Bernard Shaw and Henry James
Friends, Associates May Sinclair
On her visit to the USA, MS became a warm friend of Annie Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett .
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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She was delighted with Thomas Hardy , with whom she went cycling in Dorset in...
Friends, Associates Augusta Gregory
With her marriage, AG became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria , Heinrich Schliemann , and James Froude shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning and Henry James on...
Fictionalization John Oliver Hobbes
A more positive portrait of JOH can be read in the character of Milly Theale in Henry James 's The Wings of the Dove: Hobbes immediately recognised herself in Milly. Fictionalisations of her also...
Family and Intimate relationships Radclyffe Hall
Violet Hunt acted as a literary mentor to RH , who met many writers at Hunt's literary salons, including Henry James .
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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Hall tried to initiate a sexual relationship with Hunt; but in the...
Family and Intimate relationships Rudyard Kipling
RK 's mother was unenthusiastic about the marriage; his father showed his approval of Caroline's general competence by calling her a good man spoiled by her gender.
Carrington, Charles. Rudyard Kipling. His Life and Work. Macmillan.
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Novelist Henry James , a family friend...
Family and Intimate relationships Adelaide Procter
AP 's mother, born Anne Skepper , was a clever and observant woman, a frequent and influential hostess to the London literary elite. Frances Kemble considered her notable for her pungent epigrams and brilliant sallies...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Stevenson
She found motherhood a struggle. She tried to keep up her serious reading (James , Hardy , Proust ) while breast-feeding, and to serve an elegant candlelit supper each evening while the baby cried...

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