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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Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Reviews were extremely positive. Most expressed a sense of loss to English letters at EG
's recent death, and compared Wives and Daughters to her other well-loved book, Cranford. The Athenæum likened the style... |
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 | 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 | The novel prompted Henry James
to write to MAW
as a critic. They had met previously, and, indeed, the visit to the theatre that inspired the novel was made in his company. However, it was... |
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 | 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 |
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 | Fanny Kemble | Henry James
characterized these memoirs as an overflow of conversation. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 229 |
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 | 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. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 151 Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press. 167 |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | This volume was badly received. Cather sent a copy to Henry James
, whom at this date she much admired. As Tillie Olsen
later pointed out indignantly, he never replied. To an enquiry from a... |
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 | Sara Jeannette Duncan | SJD
sent a copy of this work to Henry James
, who replied: I think your drama lacks a little line—bony structure and palpable, as it were, tense cord—on which to string the pearls of... |
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 <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Moods</span>, 1865”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, pp. 69-73. 73 |
Literary responses | Anita Brookner | There was some astonishment in the media when this novel won the Booker Prize (although it was up against J. G. Ballard
's Empire of the Sun. The book itself significantly boosted AB
's literary... |
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