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Henry James
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
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culture · American British writer (1843–1916) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · playwright · poet lawyer · literary critic · editing staff · short story writer · also Henry James, Henricus James, James
Born 15 April 1843 · Died 28 February 1916 · Q170509
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2026· 7 entries
“a work of art must lift up the heart,”
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“We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art, yours & mine, what we are talking about—& the only way to know it is to have lived & loved & cursed & floundered & enjoyed & suffered—I don”
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“At last—for the first time—I live!”
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Investing.com España: Raymond James eleva el precio objetivo de American Integrity Insurance por perspectivas de crecimiento
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The New York Times: Arsenal working to complete signings of Manchester United’s James Scanlon, Habeeb Ogunneye - The Athletic
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ArchDaily: Galería de Great James Street / Emrys Architects - 11
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Forgotten Plays: No 11 – The High Bid (1908) by Henry James
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2006· 1 entry
Edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias
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1947· 1 entry
“that no one but you were allowed to write about Uncle Henry”
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1930· 1 entry
“I have decided to make it a rule not to consider applications from students who are trying to write theses – including PhD theses.”
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1916· 7 entries
Died 1916-02-28.
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“Mógłbym wrócić do Ameryki (mogą mnie zanieść na noszach), żeby umrzeć, ale nigdy – przenigdy – żeby żyć.”
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“Czymże jest postać, jeśli nie czynnikiem determinującym zdarzenie? I czymże jest zdarzenie, jeśli nie ilustracją postaci?”
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“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
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“Ela, Kate Croy, esperava a vinda do pai, mas ele se fazia esperar, sem a menor consideração, e houve momentos em que a moça exibiu par si mesma, no espelho acima do console da lareira, um rosto decididamente pálido, com uma irritação que a levou a ponto de ir embora sem vê-lo.”
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“Foi nesse ponto que ela viu completo o despedaçamento de sua grande pergunta, viu que lhe restava apenas o senso de estar ali com ele. E não houve arrepio, por isso, no que também acabou vendo -que, como quer que houvesse começado, agora agia por um desejo particular, determinado por novos fatos ou novas fantasias, de ser igual a todos os demais, simplificadoramente "bondoso" com ela.”
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“Romantyzm zaś dotyczy spraw, których nigdy nie zdołamy zgłębić, choćbyśmy wykorzystali wszelkie możliwości, jakie daje nam świat, całe bogactwo, odwagę, rozum i fantazję; spraw, które docierają do nas cudownymi ścieżkami naszych zwodniczych myśli i pragnień.”
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1915· 1 entry
Became a British citizen and was awarded the Order of Merit the following year
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1914· 1 entry
“Opis: w liście do przyjaciela z 1914, nazajutrz po wypowiedzeniu wojny Niemcom przez Wielką Brytanię.”
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1913· 1 entry
Wrote his autobiographies, A Small Boy and Others and Notes of a Son and Brother
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1910· 1 entry
His brother William died; Henry had just joined William from an unsuccessful search for relief in Europe, on what turned out to be Henry's last visit to the United States (summer 1910 to July 1911) and was near him when
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1907· 1 entry
When James made another concerted effort to write for the stage
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1904· 1 entry
Revisited America and lectured on Balzac
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1899· 1 entry
When James was 56, and wrote letters to Andersen that are intensely emotional: "I hold you, dearest boy, in my innermost love, & count on your feeling me—in every throb of your soul"
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1895· 1 entry
James was near despair and thoughts of death plagued him
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1893· 1 entry
However, he responded to a request from actor-manager George Alexander for a serious play for the opening of his renovated St
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1888· 1 entry
Published the short novel The Aspern Papers and The Reverberator
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1887· 1 entry
And his shock and grief over her suicide in 1894, are discussed in detail in Edel's biography and play a central role in a study by Lyndall Gordon
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1886· 1 entry
Published The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima, both influenced by the French writers that he had studied assiduously
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1884· 2 entries
James made another visit to Paris, where he met again with Zola, Daudet, and Goncourt
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“s choice of subject and method of treatment. He maintained that the widest possible freedom in content and approach would help ensure narrative fiction”
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1878· 1 entry
Daisy Miller established his fame on both sides of the Atlantic
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1877· 1 entry
First visited Wenlock Abbey in Shropshire, home of his friend Charles Milnes Gaskell, whom he had met through Henry Adams
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1875· 1 entry
James wrote for The Nation every week; he received anywhere from $3 to $10 for brief paragraphs, $12 to $25 for book reviews and $25 to $40 for travel articles and lengthier items
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1871· 1 entry
Published his first novel, Watch and Ward, in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly
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1869· 1 entry
And 1871 and a dramatisation of his popular novella Daisy Miller in 1882
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1865· 2 entries
Louisa May Alcott visited Boston and dined with the James family; she later wrote in her journals that "Henry Jr
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Edwin Lawrence Godkin, the founder of The Nation, visited the James family at their Boston residence in Ashburton Place; the purpose of his visit was to solicit contributions from Henry Senior and Henry Junior for the in
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1864· 1 entry
The James family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to be near William, who had enrolled first in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard and then in the medical school
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1862· 1 entry
Henry attended Harvard Law School, but realised that he was not interested in studying law
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1860· 1 entry
The family returned to Newport in the United States
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1845· 1 entry
And Henry spent much of his childhood living between his paternal grandmother's home in Albany and a house on 58 West Fourteenth Street in Manhattan
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1843· 1 entry
Born 1843-04-15.
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