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. Oxford University Press.
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 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Updike again complained about RPJ 's refusal of sympathy to her characters. Robert Towers went further: linking this with Jhabvala's gender and (British) nationality, he accused her of revelling in her characters' discomfiture and degradation...
Literary responses Dinah Mulock Craik
Sally Mitchell characterizes it as embarrassing to read
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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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 Alice Meynell
This collection moved the Times Literary Supplement to declare that its delicacy—of scrupulousness, balance, fineness, skill—is as rare in life and in art as ever it was.
Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House.
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Dixon Scott wrote in the Liverpool Courier...
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...
Literary responses Isa Blagden
Henry James dismissed IB 's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster.
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys.
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IB 's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...
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.
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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 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
The early Esmeralda was badly, but anonymously, reviewed by Henry James in the Pall Mall Gazette.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus.
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That Man and I, reworked from part of In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim...
Material Conditions of Writing Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
This followed RPJ 's script for screening her own Heat and Dust, 1983. The film of The Bostonians was originally intended to conclude a series of five programmes for WGBH television of Boston...
Occupation Sir Walter Besant
SWB was a novelist, translator, editor, and journalist. For a short time, he worked as a professor at the Royal College in Mauritius, but left to focus on his writing. Many of his works...
Occupation Julia Ward Howe
In 1877 JWH set out with her daughter Maud on a two-year tour of Europe; at a time before women attended college, this was seen as a way for young women to recieve a...
Performance of text Dodie Smith
DS made a disappointing return to London's West End with Letter from Paris, a play based on Henry James 's story The Reverberator. The Daily Mail's headline read, Ordeal to be there.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
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Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
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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.
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Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams.
96, 198
Performance of text Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ wrote for Merchant-Ivory ProductionsThe Bostonians: A Screenplay, from Henry James 's novel; the film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams.
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Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan.
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Author summary Sara Jeannette Duncan
SJD was a Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist whose work spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her writing generally features characters who fail to live up to their own potential, such as Lorne...

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