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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Literary responses George Eliot
This work was quite well reviewed, though Richard Holt Hutton wrote that GE found verse a fetter, and not a stimulus,
qtd. in
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
294
and Henry James declared in the North American Review that it was not...
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 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 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 Mary Augusta Ward
James 's admiring response admitted his own irresistible urge to recast the novels of other people. He also opined to MAW that you had done nothing more homogeneous, nor more hanging and moving together. It...
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 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.
qtd. in
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1982.
446
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, 2004.
101
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, 2004.
208
That Man and I, reworked from part of In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim...
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.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
In Ireland, wrote the...
Literary responses Penelope Lively
Fay Weldon calls this novel James ian . . . in its complexities and its carefulness.
qtd. in
Lively, Penelope. Heat Wave. HarperPerennial, 1997.
back cover
Literary responses Julia Constance Fletcher
Henry James , reviewing this novel, called the rootless expatriate Amenican the most beautiful and fascinating type in modern fiction.
“The No Name Series”. Studies in the American Renaissance, No. 15, 1 Jan. 1991, pp. 375-02, https://www.jstor.org/stable/30227614.
385
Another reviewer praised it for magical descriptions, insight into moods and emotions, and a...
Literary responses Rebecca Harding Davis
In her own time RHD 's writing was generally well received. But in a rather negative review of Waiting for the Verdict, Henry James (the most prominent writer of her generation) not only gave...

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