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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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 | 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. 104-5 Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 120 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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. 97 |
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. 57 |
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 | 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. 183 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Stevenson |
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