Henry James

-
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. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
he was hugely influential as a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. His also wrote plays, which, however, were unsuccessful on stage.
Henry James in a black-and-white photo by William M. Vander Weyde. James is seen full-face, looking forward and to the left, wearing a formal suit, with bald head slightly tilted.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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...
Travel Margaret Oliphant
MO holidayed in Venice, where she met Henry James .
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986.
120
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, 1990.
From February to April...

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.