Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | A Fair Barbarian was said by one critic to rival Henry James
's Daisy Miller. Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 101 |
Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The early Esmeralda was badly, but anonymously, reviewed by Henry James
in the Pall Mall Gazette. Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 208 |
Education | Dorothy Bussy | Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre
. Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain |
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 | 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 |
Birth | Catherine Carswell | Catherine Macfarlane (later CC
) was born on top of a steep, grey, stony hill in and overlooking that seat of discipline—as Henry James
has called it—the city of Glasgow. Carswell, Catherine. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography and Other Posthumous Papers. Editor Carswell, John, 1st ed., Secker and Warburg, 1950. 15 Royle, Trevor. The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Macmillan Reference Books, 1983. 61 |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | This volume was badly received. Cather sent a copy to Henry James
, whom at this date she much admired. As Tillie Olsen
later pointed out indignantly, he never replied. To an enquiry from a... |
Reception | Willa Cather | WC
's own later comments on this book were somewhat grudging. It was conventional, she said, carefully arranged but unnecessary and superficial. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 92 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cholmondeley | According to Percy Lubbock
, MC
and her sisters entertained often and were charming and successful hostesses. Mary was nevertheless said to be a shy and modest woman who, while she found writing tedious, enjoyed... |
Friends, Associates | Agatha Christie | The Millers entertained frequently and lavishly at their home. Among the guests at Ashfield were Rudyard Kipling
and Henry James
. Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, 1984, http://Rutherford HSS. 11-13 Christie, Agatha. An Autobiography. Collins, 1977, http://Rutherford HSS. 50 |
Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold
thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time... |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | This was the first novel of DMC
's in which the motif of disability—her predilection for cripples and invalids qtd. in Showalter, Elaine. “Dinah Mulock Craik and the Tactics of Sentiment: A Case Study in Victorian Female Authorship”. Feminist Studies, Vol. 2 , 1975, pp. 5-23. 11 |
Literary responses | Dinah Mulock Craik | John Halifax was in such demand that DMC
's publishers, Hurst and Blackett
, went through four sets of plates by 1858, and many other publishers put out editions on both sides of the Atlantic... |
Literary responses | Dinah Mulock Craik | Sally Mitchell
characterizes it as embarrassing to read Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 64 |
Literary responses | Ella D'Arcy | H. G. Wells
reviewed Monochromes along with volumes of stories by Henry Harland
and by Henry James
. Dismissing Harland as a mediocrity and James for his style (which he likened to thorns, brambles, and... |
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