√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form 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 James | What Maisie Knew | Print: 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 James | Confidence | Print: 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 James | The Saloon | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ...... | Ada Cambridge | Henry James | | Print: 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 |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel notes re Henry James's unsigned review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, in North American Review (Jul... | Matthew Arnold | Henry James | Review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 | articles on Swedenborg | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 Sr | anecdote/account ("story of Mr Webster") | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of "tale" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in s... | Henry James | Henry James | Eugene Pickering | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 James | The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Robert 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 James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 James | stories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam James, 28 February 1877: " ... [Henry Sidgwick] has read Roderick Hudson (!) and asked me to sto... | Henry Sidgwick | Henry James | Roderick Hudson | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., 19 April 1878: "Two days since I dined with Frederick Macmillan to meet Mr Grove, the ... | Archibald Grove | Henry James | The American | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says '... | Henry James | Henry James | Daisy Miller | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 |
| 1850-1899 | Henry 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 James | review of Correspondence de C. A. Sainte-Beuve | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Leon 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 James | Daisy Miller | Unknown |
| 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 James | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 21st February,
Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with th... | Gerald Moore | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907:
'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalm... | Virginia Stephen | Henry James | The American Scene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulatio... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Sacred Fount | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 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 James | Preface, Portrait of a Lady | Print: 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 James | The Spoils of Poynton | Print: 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 James | The Two Magics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] ... | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Henry James | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Real Thing | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Pupil | Print: 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 James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 January 1905:
'I sit in the Kachcheri [a government office] most of the day & ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905:
'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899:
'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Laura Mary Forster | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. 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 James | The Middle Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. 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 James | The Sense of the Past | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Ambassadors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from whic... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Letters of Henry James (vol.I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] tal... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | Portraits of places | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Various 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 James | The better sort | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginal 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 James | The reverberator | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern warning | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The ambassadors | Print: 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 James | | Print: 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 James | A Little Tour in France | Print: 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 James | The American | Print: 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 James | The American | Print: 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 James | The Outcry | Print: 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 James | A Small Boy and Others | Print: 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 James | Notes of a Son and Brother | Print: Book |