Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Henry James

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisi...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesWhat Maisie KnewPrint: Book
1900-1945'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very inter...Katherine Mansfield Henry JamesConfidencePrint: Book
1900-1945'"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1...George Bernard Shaw Henry JamesThe SaloonUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899
Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ......Ada Cambridge Henry JamesPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...Neville Cardus Henry James[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a...Alfred Edgar Coppard Henry James[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Leon Edel notes re Henry James's unsigned review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, in North American Review (Jul...Matthew Arnold Henry JamesReview of Matthew Arnold, Essays in CriticismPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 1 January 1870 (letter begun 27 December 1869): " ... I felt a most refreshing blast of ...Henry James Henry James Sr"reply to a 'Swedenborgian'"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Sw...Henry James Henry James Srarticles on SwedenborgPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Sw...Henry James Henry James Sr"Is Marriage Holy?"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 24 March 1873: "Thank him [Henry James Sr] ... greatly for his story of Mr Webster....Henry James Henry James Sranecdote/account ("story of Mr Webster")Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of "tale" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in s...Henry James Henry JamesEugene PickeringManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 2 January 1885: "Three days ago ... came the two copies of Father's (and your) book ... ...Henry James Henry James Sr and William JamesThe Literary Remains of the Late Henry JamesPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry James, November-early December 1887: "I must break out with the news that I can't bear...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry JamesPortrait of a LadyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "The other day I was at the house of a dreadful old lion huntress, Mm...Mme. Blaze de Bury Henry JamesstoriesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Wiliam James, 28 February 1877: " ... [Henry Sidgwick] has read Roderick Hudson (!) and asked me to sto...Henry Sidgwick Henry JamesRoderick HudsonPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., 19 April 1878: "Two days since I dined with Frederick Macmillan to meet Mr Grove, the ...Archibald Grove Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., 29 May 1878: " ... Sir Charles Dilke ... appears to have found time ... to read and be...Sir Charles Dilke Henry James"French essays"Print: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says '...Henry James Henry JamesDaisy MillerPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: "I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it...Henry James Henry James Sr[book]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., 11 January 1880: "I know there are quite too many 'I's' in my Sainte-Beuve -- they sho...Henry James Henry Jamesreview of Correspondence de C. A. Sainte-BeuvePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Leon Edel notes: "In the weeks after his mother's death H[enry]J[ames] converted 'Daisy Miler' into a play, and before...Henry James Henry JamesDaisy MillerUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston For...Johnston Forbes-Robertson Henry James"Covering End"Print: Book
1850-1899'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend...Arnold Bennett Henry JamesunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 21st February, Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with th...Gerald Moore Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907: 'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalm...Virginia Stephen Henry JamesThe American ScenePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ...Virginia Woolf Henry James'works'Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage....Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Wings of a DovePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulatio...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Wings of a DovePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of ...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Sacred FountPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesPreface, Portrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I had this morning a charming surprise in the shape of the "Spoils of Poynton" sent me by H. James with a very charac...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe Spoils of PoyntonPrint: Book
1850-1899'PS I've read "Two Magics" Henry James's last. The first story ["The Turn of the Screw"] is all there. He extracts an ...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe Two MagicsPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] ...Lady Ottoline Morrell Henry JamesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart': 'To me even "R.T...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe Real ThingPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart': 'To me even "R.T...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe PupilPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hard...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Golden BowlPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 January 1905: 'I sit in the Kachcheri [a government office] most of the day & ...Leonard Woolf Henry JamesPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905: 'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent...Leonard Woolf Henry JamesThe Golden BowlPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ...Leonard Woolf Henry JamesPrint: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesPortrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesWhat Maisie KnewPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe...Laura Mary Forster Henry JamesPortrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henr...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Middle YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918: 'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscu...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Sense of the PastPrint: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassad...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from whic...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Letters of Henry James (vol.I)Print: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] tal...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesPortraits of placesPrint: Book
1900-1945Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 "The birthplace": "This was bas...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe better sortPrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: "What was the year when we saw so much of th...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe reverberatorPrint: Book
1900-1945Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his ...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern warningPrint: Book
1900-1945This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe ambassadorsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere...Alfred Tennyson Henry JamesPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely readi...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesA Little Tour in FrancePrint: Book
1850-1899'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the e...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1900-1945'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the e...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the fine present.[...] While reading delightedly this little work which shines with so soft a brightnes...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe OutcryPrint: Book
1900-1945'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualit...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesA Small Boy and OthersPrint: Book
1900-1945'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualit...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesNotes of a Son and BrotherPrint: Book

 

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