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. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
he was hugely influential as a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. His also wrote plays, which, however, were unsuccessful on stage.
Henry James in a black-and-white photo by William M. Vander Weyde. James is seen full-face, looking forward and to the left, wearing a formal suit, with bald head slightly tilted.

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Textual Features Ethel M. Arnold
EA ’s strength as a writer was in her faculty for criticism. Some of the more prominent novels she reviewed for the Manchester Guardian include George Meredith ’s The Amazing Marriage and Henry James ’s...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
In addition to poems from all her previous volumes, the book includes The Story of Marpessa, which first appeared in the Universal Review in September 1889. This poem is a critique of marriage adapted...
Textual Features Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The script uses narrative by Gilot in voice-over to supplement its dramatic settings and tense encounters between people.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Newly updated ed., Harry N. Abrams, 1997.
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The film as a whole is disturbing in rather the way that Jefferson is and that...
Textual Features Gertrude Stein
As well as landscape, she also meditates here on space, literature, democracy, superstition, propaganda, national belonging, and identity. (The old woman said I am I because my little dog knows me, but the dog...
Textual Features Sara Jeannette Duncan
Critic Rosemary Sullivan sees in these stories the influence of Henry James .
Sullivan, Rosemary, and Sara Jeannette Duncan. “Introduction”. The Pool in the Desert, edited by Gillian Siddall and Gillian Siddall, Broadview, 2001, pp. 11-22.
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The title story features a heroine who longs for freedom, and also explores the emotions of a married woman through the...
Textual Features Viola Meynell
This includes letters from Charlotte Mew , Henry James , and Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson .
Textual Features E. Nesbit
EN shows her versatility. The stories in Homespun are largely written in Kentish dialect, while those in The Literary Sense, 1903, aspire to aesthetics and James ian self-consciousness.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
This was the first novel of DMC 's in which the motif of disability—her predilection for cripples and invalids
qtd. in
Showalter, Elaine. “Dinah Mulock Craik and the Tactics of Sentiment: A Case Study in Victorian Female Authorship”. Feminist Studies, Vol.
2
, 1975, pp. 5-23.
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as Henry James patronisingly called it in 1866—appeared. According to critic Cora Kaplan , this...
Textual Features Vernon Lee
Lady Tal features Jervase Marion, a character (or caricature) whose life is suffocated by his devotion to his art. He is balding, overweight, a dainty but frugal bachelor who takes the position of dispassioned spectator...
Textual Production Martin Ross
Martin's brother James had already published hunting stories.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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But it was J. B. Pinker , one of the first literary agents in London, who told her and Somerville that he could easily place...
Textual Production George Eliot
The previous year young William Blackwood reported her anxiety and reluctance at the prospect of having the manuscript of this first part taken from her, as if it were her baby.
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press, 1954–1978, 9 vols.
6: 136
Henry James
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...
Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
ER published Theatre and Friendship: Some Henry James Letters, a collection of her letters from James .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
96, 231-2, 245
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1589 (14 July 1932): 512
Textual Production Rebecca West
RW published her first book of literary criticism, Henry James, six months after James 's death.
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library, 1957.
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Textual Production Emma Tennant
For Felony: The Private History of The Aspern Papers: A Novel, ET used Henry James 's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson , and Mary Shelley 's stepsister Claire Clairmont as source for his novel.
“Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction.

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