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.

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Literary responses Isa Blagden
Henry James dismissed IB 's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster.
qtd. in
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1982.
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IB 's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...
Literary responses Rebecca Harding Davis
Waiting for the Verdict received mixed reviews. Henry James responded savagely in The Nation on 21 November 1867, assailing it for gloominess of tone and market-driven emotionalism of style. However, the literary editor of Lippincott's...
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.
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Through One Administration was faulted by some for its risqué and suspiciously personal subject-matter, though the Saturday Review...
Literary responses Penelope Lively
Fay Weldon calls this novel James ian . . . in its complexities and its carefulness.
qtd. in
Lively, Penelope. Heat Wave. HarperPerennial, 1997.
back cover
Literary responses Julia Constance Fletcher
Henry James , reviewing this novel, called the rootless expatriate Amenican the most beautiful and fascinating type in modern fiction.
“The No Name Series”. Studies in the American Renaissance, No. 15, 1 Jan. 1991, pp. 375-02, https://www.jstor.org/stable/30227614.
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Another reviewer praised it for magical descriptions, insight into moods and emotions, and a...
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.
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That Man and I, reworked from part of In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim...
Literary responses Mary Lavin
This volume brought ML critical acclaim. R. J. Thompson read it as establishing her position as one of the most artful and perceptive masters of the story form in our day.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
In Ireland, wrote the...
Literary responses Rebecca Harding Davis
In her own time RHD 's writing was generally well received. But in a rather negative review of Waiting for the Verdict, Henry James (the most prominent writer of her generation) not only gave...
Literary responses Julia Constance Fletcher
Wilde said of Fleming's first two novels: she writes as cleverly as she talks,
Fitzsimons, Eleanor. “Julia Constance Fletcher”. Beside Every Man, 19 Apr. 2016, https://eafitzsimons.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/julia-constance-fletcher/.
 Again Henry James reviewed the book. He mentioned neither his earlier review of the same author, nor his personal acquaintance with...
Literary responses Beatrice Harraden
This was BH ' own favourite among her works.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
A review in the New York Times ascribed to it intellectual vivacity, extraordinarily skillful characterization
“Miss Harraden’s New Story”. New York Times, 6 May 1899.
(balanced with some that was not so good), humour, and...
Literary responses Julia Constance Fletcher
In a scathing review, the Graphic classified the novel as American school of Henry James and dismissed the characters as self-pitying over wrongs which amounted to nothing at all.
Locker, Arthur, editor. “New Novels”. The Graphic, Vol.
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, No. 576, 11 Dec. 1880, p. 595, https://www.proquest.com/britishperiodicals/docview/1693143486/2D9DCA24942247FDPQ/7?accountid=14474.
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Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Henry James 's review in 1865 considered Braddon's success alongside that of Collins , pronouncing her the founder of the sensation novel (defined as devising domestic mysteries adapted to the wants of a sternly prosaic...
Literary responses Lucas Malet
The Times review found the subject-matter of these stories derivative: now of Henry James , now of E. M. Forster , now of unnamed murder-mystery writers.She likes a revolver shot, not for any mystery...
Literary responses Julia Constance Fletcher
The Athenæum thought the Italian stories more tragic, more real and lively. It complained that Fleming (like Henry James , and oddly when most Americans are so energetic and decisive) chose to write about such...
Literary responses Louisa May Alcott
In a review of Moods, Henry James panned LMA 's ignorance of human nature, but did acknowledge a degree of cleverness in the author and a great deal of beauty in the writing.
James, Henry. “Review of Moods, 1865”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, 1984, pp. 69-73.
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