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  Henry James
Henry James was born in New York City into a wealthy family.
James used her as the model for such characters as Daisy Miller and Isabel Archer.
James is best known for his formulation of the philosophy of pragmatism, according to which truth is relative and best measured by the extent to which it serves human freedom.
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  Henry James - MSN Encarta
Henry, the younger brother of philosopher William James, was born in New York City.
Henry was educated at schools and by tutors in New York City; London, England; Paris, France; and Geneva, Switzerland.
James became a British citizen in 1915 to protest the neutrality of the United States in the early years of World War I (1914-1918).
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  Henry James - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James significantly contributed to the criticism of fiction, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world.
James never married, and it is an unresolved (and perhaps irresolvable) question as to whether he ever experienced a consummated sexual relationship.
Henry James was afflicted with a mild stutter; he overcame this by cultivating the habit of speaking very slowly and deliberately.
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 Henry James Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James was married to Mary Robertson Walsh, the sister of a fellow Princeton seminarian, on July 28, 1840, by the mayor of New York, in his bride's house on Washington Square.
James was an advocate of many social reforms, including the abolition of slavery and the liberalization of divorce.
William James, in London at the time, was kept from full knowledge of his father's decline in order not to interfere with a much needed vacation; when he learned that his father was on his deathbed, four days before his final demise, William James wrote a moving letter that his father never read.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Henry James   (Site not responding. Last check: )
and younger brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James, was an American-born author (although he spent much time in Europe and became a British subject near the end of his life) and critic of the late 19th and early 20th century, known for novels and novellas based upon themes of consciousness.
Henry James was afflicted with a mild stutter.
Although these criticisms have by no means abated completely, James is now widely valued for his psychological insight, his masterful creation of situations and storylines that reveal his characters' deepest motivations, his low-key but playful humor, and his assured command of the language.
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 Henry James - Biography and Works
Henry James was born on April 15, 1843 in New York City into a wealthy family.
Henry James never went so far as to utter such a thought and isn’t literally, bodily that is, among the poets.
In the 1909 preface to The Golden Bowl Henry James speaks of the revising work of an author as the work of “a poet.” In case readers think he means only writers of verse, he makes clear “that the title poet is only a title of general application and convenience.
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 the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites * R. Hathaway *
Henry James and The Atlantic Monthly - works by and about Henry James that have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly: "The Story of a Year" (1865), an installment of Portrait of a Lady, an 1882 review of Portrait of a Lady, Henry James as Landlord, etc. - Atlantic subscribers only.
Henry James on Charles Dickens - with the Sargent portrait of Henry James -->
Henry James etexts at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia - (html, by chapters) The Altar of the Dead, Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers, Confidence, The Turn of the Screw - Page down to the Henry James section.
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 Volume C: American Literature, 1865-1914   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Henry James came from a remarkable New York City family: his father, an eccentric and independently wealthy man, undertook the education of all his children; his brother William would become one of America's most important philosophers; and his sister, Alice, was a perceptive diarist.
In 1876 James moved to England, where he devoted himself to writing; his novels were often international in scope, exploring the comic or dramatic effects of an American in Europe or a European in America.
For decades firmly established as one of America's major literary figures, James is revered as a critic, as a subtle psychological realist, and as an unsurpassed stylist and craftsman.
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 James, Henry, American novelist and critic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A master of the psychological novel, James was an innovator in technique and one of the most distinctive prose stylists in English.
He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a Swedenborgian theologian, and the brother of William James, the philosopher.
James devoted himself to literature and travel, gradually assuming the role of detached spectator and analyst of life.
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Henry James   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Henry James (1843-1916) was born on April 15, 1843, to Henry James, Sr., and his wife Mary Walsh Robertson.
Henry Sr., the son of an Irish immigrant, was one of thirteen children, born in Albany, New York.
Henry James, Sr., had been a praised by the Society for Psychical Research for his observations of spirit phenomena.
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Henry James (April 15 1843 - February 28, 1916), younger brother of William James, is an American/British author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best-known for novels and novellas of morals.
In the late 20th century, many of James's novels were filmed by the team of Ismail Merchant & James Ivory, thus causing a small resurgence of interest in his works.
Many of James idiosyncracies of writing can be understood in terms of his character and background.
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 Henry James
Henry James (hereafter HJ) was born on 15 April 1843 at 21 Washington Place in New York City.
It was in 1964 that `Henry James Junior' (as HJ was known till 1883) began his career in print, after a false start at Harvard Law School in 1862-3.
The James family had returned in summer 1858 from one of their educational sessions in Europe and spent a year in Newport, Rhode Island, which became their main home for some years (from October 1859 to September 1860 they were again in Europe).
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Henry James   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Henry James was born off Broadway, in Washington Place, New York, 1843, the second of five children.
Henry James Jr.’s somewhat Proustian late autobiographical works (A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother) emphasise the precocious observational skills this rare schooling afforded; indeed he recalls Paris from the pram.
It seems James responded to news that she was dead in words to the effect of “How do you know?” A real question perhaps underlay the wit from a writer in whom ambivalence and ambiguity are typical.
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 Gathering Leaves - A Family History Encyclopedia - Person Page 15
James D. Dobbs appeared on the census of 1850 in the household of Silas Dobbs and Nancy Myers in Division 59, Meriwether Co., Georgia.
James D. Dobbs and Emma ___ appeared on the census of 1860 in Villa Rica (Dist 6), Carroll Co., Georgia.
Harris Henry Dobbs appeared on the census of 1850 in the household of Silas Dobbs and Nancy Myers in Division 59, Meriwether Co., Georgia.
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 All American: Henry James
Henry James was highly talented and displayed wonderful craftsmanship of writing during his time.
James died in February of 1916, but he left behind many great novels that are still being read and studied.
James had a consciousness of persuading his readers into the novels psychologically, and yet he brought awareness to the surface concerning many everyday social issues.
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 glbtq >> literature >> James, Henry
His father, Henry James, Sr., was a noted Swedenborgian philosopher and man of letters, a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle.
James won literary acclaim for his artistic devotion to the form of the novel, innovating the dramatic presentation of character and perfecting the technique of narrative "point of view." By the 1890s, however, his writings had begun to lose their popular appeal.
James maintained a warm friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson, and some biographers have speculated that her suicide in 1894 was due to her inability to establish a reciprocal romantic relationship with James.
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 Henry James Biography and Summary
The American author Henry James (1843-1916) was one of the major novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Henry James was a highly self-conscious author with a systematic interest in the techniques of novel writing--an interest that culminated in the landmark prefaces to the New York Edition of his own works.
Henry James was one of the most prolific of major American writers, having written more than four million words of fiction and about the same amount of nonfiction; in addition, about fifteen thousand letters are extant.
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 LitKicks: Henry James
The James children, including the lively sister Alice, were raised with liberal political views and a fervent scholarly intensity, and were also exposed to the unusual religious teachings of the Swedish mystic Swedenborg.
James was one of the last great "pre-modern" writers, and his style can seem quaint and antique next to the aggressive experimentalism of James Joyce, the surrealism of Franz Kafka and the sexual libertarianism of D. Lawrence.
James became increasingly a socialite, but never married, and some biographers consider it likely that he died a virgin (which is more than many of his idealized female characters can say).
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 Center for Henry James Studies
Henry James (1843-1916) is widely regarded as one of the most important literary figures in the history of
James wrote more than twenty novels, some one hundred short stories, thousands of pages of art and literary criticism, several volumes of travel essays, and several autobiographical volumes.
James Family Papers archive is comprised of documents belonging to Ms.
mockingbird.creighton.edu /english/hjcenter.htm   (647 words)

  
 Henry James - Books and Biography
Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York City into a wealthy family.
The outbreak of World War I was a shock for James and in 1915 he became a British citizen as a loyalty to his adopted country and in protest against the US's refusal to enter the war.
James knew exactly what he wanted, he pursued the narrow path of aesthetic duty, and success to the full extent of his possibilities has crowned him.
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 the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites * R. Hathaway *
Henry James and The Atlantic Monthly - works by and about Henry James that have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly: "The Story of a Year" (1865), an installment of Portrait of a Lady, an 1882 review of Portrait of a Lady, Henry James as Landlord, etc. - Atlantic subscribers only.
Henry James on Charles Dickens - with the Sargent portrait of Henry James -->
Henry James etexts at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia - (html, by chapters) The Altar of the Dead, Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers, Confidence, The Turn of the Screw - Page down to the Henry James section.
www2.newpaltz.edu /~hathaway   (5575 words)

  
 Henry James
James lived for a period in Paris but hated it and finally found his home in London and was a big supporter of JSS coming to England after the Madame X scandal.
Henry James (1843-1916) was thirteen years the senior to John S. Sargent (1856-1925).
Henry James himself had strong ties to the city of Boston; and it was Henry James who introduced Sargent to
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Henry James   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Henry James was born off Broadway, in Washington Place, New York, 1843, the second of five children.
Henry James Jr.’s somewhat Proustian late autobiographical works (A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother) emphasise the precocious observational skills this rare schooling afforded; indeed he recalls Paris from the pram.
It seems James responded to news that she was dead in words to the effect of “How do you know?” A real question perhaps underlay the wit from a writer in whom ambivalence and ambiguity are typical.
www.litdict.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5083   (633 words)

  
 American Literature Web Resources: Henry James
Henry James is considered a very prolific writer, authoring many novels, short stories, and essays on a variety of topics.
James has gained a reputation as "a master of character portrayal." He frequently writes in a "stream of consciousness" method, namely in his fictitious pieces.
James is considered to be a realistic fiction writer for the most part.
www.millikin.edu /aci/crow/chronology/jamesbio.html   (502 words)

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