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,
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Vernon Lee | This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde
(refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane
and William Morris |
| Education | Q. D. Leavis | Queenie also was known for her bookish habits: her tastes ran especially to Henry James
, along with the journals the New Statesman, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and Time and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | The Roths were devastated by their daughter's decision to marry a gentile. They disowned her and ceased to give her any financial support. However, this period had its happy moments as well. Q. D. introduced... |
| Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | The great parts written by QDL
have not been identified, let alone the weight of her input overall, and scholars are divided over her claims to substantial co-authorship. In the same year, 1995, Ian MacKillop |
| 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. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Rudyard Kipling | RK
's mother was unenthusiastic about the marriage; his father showed his approval of Caroline's general competence by calling her a good man spoiled by her gender. Carrington, Charles. Rudyard Kipling. His Life and Work. Macmillan. 183 |
| Textual Features | Margaret Kennedy | Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues... |
| Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | While they were both in London, Henry James
visited FK
weekly. She was a friend from the later 1840s with Frances Power Cobbe
, from whose partner, Mary Lloyd
, she rented a house at... |
| death | Fanny Kemble | Her funeral was arranged for 20 January, and she was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Henry James
published a forty-page essay by way of eulogy in Temple Bar. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 260, 261 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | FK
met Henry James
in Rome, and a friendship developed. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 220 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | Her younger brother, Harry
, gained a different kind of notoriety as a young man when he fell in love with a woman of superior social class; this story was retold by Henry James
in... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Jolley | |
| Performance of text | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | RPJ
wrote her first screenplay based on a classic novel: The Europeans, adapted from Henry James
, which was shown at the CannesFilm Festival
. Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan. 240 Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams. 96, 198 |
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