Henry James

15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916

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.

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Literary responses	Violet Hunt	To varying degrees, critics have valued VH 's recollections of artistic contemporaries more than her style or other aspects of the memoirs. In a brief review in the Nation and Athenæum on 20 March 1926,...
Literary responses	Mary Augusta Ward	Henry James disliked this tale. It was well received by reviewers; the Critic hailed MAW as the greatest woman novelist of her day. qtd. in Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 151 Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press, 1970. 167
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	George Eliot	John Morley , anonymously in the Saturday Review, noted that [o]ne of the puzzles, which runs pathetically through Felix Holt as through Romola and the The Mill on the Floss, is the evil...
Literary responses	Ethel Wilson	Positive reviews praised EW 's masterful description of the B.C. interior. A reviewer in the Chicago Sunday Tribune wrote: Rarely in recent reading have I encountered an author who has transferred her love and understanding...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Inchbald	A Simple Story was praised by no less a modern authority than Q. D. Leavis , TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (8 September 1989): 964 and received a more recent accolade from Terry Castle as the most elegant English fiction...
Literary responses	Mary Augusta Ward	MAW 's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith , Sir J. M. Barrie , and Henry James. James wrote to her...
Literary responses	Fanny Kemble	Henry James characterized these memoirs as an overflow of conversation. qtd. in Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000. 229 He also recorded FK 's own reaction to the work's public acceptance: Her book . . . has been quite an immense success here...
Literary responses	Dinah Mulock Craik	Sally Mitchell characterizes it as embarrassing to read Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 64 owing to its sentimentality, but argues that the idealized portrait of a crippled man whose noble life it delineates makes physical disability a powerful figure for...
Literary responses	Ethel Sidgwick	ES 's interest in the interaction of different national cultures, and in the issue of what it means to be English, caused some commentators to liken her to Henry James . R. Brimley Johnson in...
Literary responses	George Eliot	This work was quite well reviewed, though Richard Holt Hutton wrote that GE found verse a fetter, and not a stimulus, qtd. in Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. 294 and Henry James declared in the North American Review that it was not...
Literary responses	Margaret Oliphant	It is almost impossible to calculate MO 's lifetime earnings as an author: she used various different publishers, and borrowed money from them as well as waiting to be paid. But it seems from the...
Literary responses	Mary Augusta Ward	James 's admiring response admitted his own irresistible urge to recast the novels of other people. He also opined to MAW that you had done nothing more homogeneous, nor more hanging and moving together. It...
Literary responses	Fanny Kemble	Henry James remarked on her achievement: To write one's first novel at the age of eighty is a thing which could have happened only to a woman who has done everything, all her life, just...
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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