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 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 Ethel Wilson
Positive reviews praised EW 's masterful description of the B.C. interior. A reviewer in the Chicago Sunday Tribune wrote: Rarely in recent reading have I encountered an author who has transferred her love and understanding...
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
and received a more recent accolade from Terry Castle as the most elegant English fiction...
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.
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He also recorded FK 's own reaction to the work's public acceptance: Her book . . . has been quite an immense success here...
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.
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Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press.
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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.
186, 195, 203
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
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.
199
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan.
242, 240
Author summary Rebecca Harding Davis
RHD published in the later nineteenth-century United States over 500 works, including novels, short fiction, sketches, and social commentary that turned away from romanticism and sentimental fiction to a distinctively American, proletarian realism.
Lasseter, Janice Milner, and Sharon M. Harris, editors. “Introduction”. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, Vanderbilt University Press, pp. 1-19.
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