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 | 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... |
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 | 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 | Reviewer Dinah Birch
discerned in this book and in AB
's work generally severe taste conceal[ing] an expansively James
ian aestheticism. Birch, Dinah. “Wintry Lessons”. London Review of Books, pp. 30-1. 30 |
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. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Literary responses | Sarah Waters | Waters says that while some of her lesbian readers felt angry or let down by her writing a book without lesbian content, this was the book that my 10-year-old self was destined to write. Allardice, Lisa. “Sarah Waters: ’Some of my readers really did hate me. They felt let down’”. theguardian.com. |
Literary responses | Penelope Lively | Fay Weldon
calls this novel James
ian . . . in its complexities and its carefulness. Lively, Penelope. Heat Wave. HarperPerennial. back cover |
Literary responses | Beryl Bainbridge | Publishers rejecting the work had called the central characters repulsive beyond belief. 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. |
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/. “Miss Harraden’s New Story”. New York Times. |
Literary responses | George Egerton | Both lauded and lambasted, GE
was a sexually radical writer who challenged English reserve and literary reticence through the directness of her treatment of female desire. Ledger, Sally. The New Woman. Manchester University Press. 188 |
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 | Sybille Bedford | Nancy Mitford
called A Legacyone of the very best novels I've ever read. Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin. prelims Dirda, Michael. “Sips from the finest vintage”. Guardian Weekly, p. 25. 25 |
Literary responses | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The New York Times called this one of the three collaborators' best films as well as one of the best adaptations of a major literary work ever to come onto the screen. Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams. 137 |
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... |
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