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. 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
Friends, Associates Frances Hodgson Burnett
Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone and his wife in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Lynn Linton
Critic Terry Castle calls this a strange, acidulous tale . . . one of her most fascinating and tormented works. . . . it remains, a century later, a mordant, rebarbative, yet peculiarly affecting work...
Intertextuality and Influence Rebecca West
It was first serialised in Century magazine.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
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Several critics have noted the influence both of Henry James and of Freud ian psychoanalysis on this novel.
Intertextuality and Influence Anita Desai
AD 's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster , T. S. Eliot , Dickinson
Intertextuality and Influence Joan Aiken
She presents this old house (home to successive writers: Henry James , E. F. Benson , and Rumer Godden ) as holding the story of a mysterious death in the later eighteenth century, which leaves...
Intertextuality and Influence Rebecca West
According to West's biographer Carl Rollyson , its heroine, Isabelle Terry, may have been created in response to Henry James 's portrayal of Isabel Archer in The Portrait of A Lady, which RW had...
Intertextuality and Influence Sara Jeannette Duncan
The story centres around baking-powder heiress Mamie Wick from Chicago and her English suitor Charles Mafferton. Mamie rejects Mafferton to return home and marry a professor from Yale .
Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983.
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SJD had imagined a character...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR 's personal and literary influence are inextricable. She was held in high esteem by many members of the literary establishment both as her father's daughter and, as her life progressed, in her own right...
Intertextuality and Influence Christine Brooke-Rose
This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...
Intertextuality and Influence Ali Smith
The book's narrator is an unnamed, ungendered arborist in mourning for his or her unnamed, ungendered partner, a literary academic whose spectre lingers about the book both figuratively, in the form of unfinished lectures, and...
Intertextuality and Influence Violet Hunt
VH was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt 's...
Intertextuality and Influence Sylvia Plath
This poem, which reflects her reading in Henry James , Scott Fitzgerald , and Charles Baudelaire , expresses whimsical regret that the days of ogres and dragons, perils and combat, knights and princesses, have passed.
Plath, Sylvia. “Ennui”. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2006.
Leisure and Society Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Subscribers to the portrait included Gertrude Bell , Arnold Bennett , Rhoda Broughton , Lucy Clifford , Henry James , Elizabeth Robins , the Tennyson s, Josephine Ward , and Margaret Woods .
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray, 1924.
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Leisure and Society Isa Blagden
IB was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
Leisure and Society Eliza Lynn Linton
She enjoyed going to and hosting prominent literary and social receptions. Her guests included a wide range of people: popular writers such as Rudyard Kipling , Marie Corelli , and Frank Harris ; luminaries of...

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