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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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.
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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.
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Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989.
242, 240
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
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...
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 Webster and the Elizabethan Drama.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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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
A...
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.
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Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp.
69-70
After this CM stopped submitting work to...
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...
Reception Vernon Lee
This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde (refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane and William Morris
Reception Mary Augusta Ward
The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event.
qtd. in
Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, 1987, p. vii - xviii.
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Critic John Sutherland deems it the best-selling work of quality fiction in the nineteenth century. By the summer...

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