Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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,
"Henry James, c. 1900" Retrieved from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Photo_of_Henry_James.jpg.
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|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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, 1996. 203 Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 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, 1989. 240 Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 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, 1991. 199 Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989. 242, 240 |
| 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... |
| Author summary | Edith Wharton | EW
, early twentieth-century novelist of American nationality, upper-middle-class status and subject-matter, and European cultural interests, has suffered in critical estimation by being ranked second to her friend and contemporary Henry James
. Writing through... |
| 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, 2001, pp. 1-19. 2, 9-10 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Mew | The story was rejected by The Yellow Book in January 1895 as too long (although they had recently printed a longer story by Henry James
). Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983. 309 Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp. 69-70 |
| Publishing | Rupert Brooke | More posthumous writing by RB
appeared: Letters from America (introduced by Henry James
), collecting articles mostly written for the Weekly Westminster Gazette, and the scholarly Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996. 110 |
| Publishing | Amy Levy | AL
had requested for it a binding like that of The Aspern Papers: double gold lines and dark cloth very nicely got up, but dark red instead of the James
volume's blue. qtd. in Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000. 149 |
| Reception | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's work was also informed by other less-recognized sources, particularly Henry James
's The Ambassadors, 1903. After reading this, she called James's narrative approach the first completely satisfying way of writing a novel... |
| Reception | Willa Cather | WC
's own later comments on this book were somewhat grudging. It was conventional, she said, carefully arranged but unnecessary and superficial. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 92 |
| Reception | Vernon Lee | One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL
's work was John Addington Symonds
, a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other... |
| Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold
thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time... |
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