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 Henry James - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The outbreak of World War I was a profound shock for James, and in 1915 he became a British citizen to declare his loyalty to his adopted country and to protest America's refusal to enter the war on behalf of Britain.
Henry James at eight years old with his father, Henry James, Sr.
Theodore Roosevelt also criticized James for his supposed lack of masculinity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James   (6790 words)

  
 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Henry James
Henry Sr., the son of an Irish immigrant, was one of thirteen children, born in Albany, New York.
By the time his own children were born, he had inherited a great deal in wealth from his father, and the James family, at the time of Henry Jr.'s birth, lived in New York City, where Henry Sr.
He attended Harvard Law School from 1862 to 1863 but withdrew to concentrate on his writing, and was later awarded an honorary degree in 1911.
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_henry_james.html   (1059 words)

  
 William James - Biography, Chronology, and Photographs
William's father, Henry James Sr., was one of 13 children born to an Irish immigrant.
When James returned to Cambridge at the end of September, he set to work, finally, on a series of Lowell lectures scheduled for early November, to be repeated at Columbia University in January.
James began his studies at Harvard at the same time that the American Civil War began to rage.
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/jphotos.html   (8875 words)

  
 NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Henry James Pye
Henry James Pye (February 20, 1745 – August 11, 1813) was a British poet.
http://pedia.nodeworks.com/H/HE/HEN/Henry_James_Pye   (237 words)

  
 James, Henry - Columbia Encyclopedia article about James, Henry
Albany, N.Y.; father of the philosopher William James James, William, 1842–1910, American philosopher, b.
He rebelled against the strict Calvinist theology of his family and of Princeton Theological Seminary, to which he was sent, and sought a personal solution.
1961); A. Habegger, The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr.
http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/James,+Henry   (1104 words)

  
 Henry James - MSN Encarta
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).
He belonged to a novel-reading, play-going family that vigorously discussed everything it read and saw.
Henry, the younger brother of philosopher William James, was born in New York City.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761572040   (803 words)

  
 Knitting Circle Henry James
Henry James entered Harvard Law School in 1862 but withdrew at the end of the year.
Stevens is eager to enlist James as precursor of 'identity politics'."
He was known as Henry James Junior until his father died.
http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/henryjames.html   (1774 words)

  
 Henry James
Henry James (1843-1916) was thirteen years the senior to John S. Sargent (1856-1925).
For example, The Curtis family who owned a palazzo in Venice were cousins to Sargent and it would be from James’ visits to the
Henry James (1843-1916), an expatriate American writer who settled in England and eventually became an British citizen.
http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Henry_James.htm   (822 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Portable Henry James (Penguin Classics): Books: Henry James,John Auchard
Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York City and entered the law school at Harvard in 1862.
The limitations of that greatness are the limitations of James own life and experience.
He moved to London in 1875 and became a British citizen in 1915.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0142437670?v=glance   (858 words)

  
 Henry James
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.
Henry James was born in New York City into a wealthy family.
His father was a Swedenborgian and William James, the son of Henry James, showed in his philosophical works a deep understanding of Swedenborg.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hjames.htm   (2033 words)

  
 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: Henry ...
With Twain, James is generally ranked as the greatest American novelist of the second half of the 19th century.
The complex and almost mythical The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) (which James felt was his best novel), and The Golden Bowl (1904) date from this major period.
James is noted for his "international theme" -- that is, the complex relationships between na‹ve Americans and cosmopolitan Europeans.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/james.htm   (401 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Henry James
Henry James was born off Broadway, in Washington Place, New York, 1843, the second of five children.
So the James children grew up on the move, on both sides of the Atlantic.
William became an eminent philosopher and psychologist; it was said that Henry wrote like a psychologist and William like a novelist.
http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5083   (633 words)

  
 Center for Henry James Studies
Bay James and on loan to the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University.
James’s role in determining the direction of American literature and thus culture is represented in his letters to an extraordinary range of over 1,000 individuals.
General Editors of The Complete Letters of Henry James are Greg W. Zacharias (Creighton University) and
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/hjcenter.htm   (653 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Henry James Coleridge
He was the son of Sir John Taylor Coleridge, a Judge of the King's Bench, and brother of John Duke, Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of England.
The chief sources for his life are articles in The Month, June, 1893, by his friend James Patterson, Bishop of Emmaus, and Father Richard F. Clarke, S.J. Transcribed by Joseph P. Thomas
He was sent to Eton at the age of thirteen and thence to Oxford, having obtained a scholarship at Trinity College.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04097c.htm   (622 words)

  
 Henry James
Henry James was born in New York City.
Tales of Henry James: The Texts of the Stories, the Author on His Craft, Background and Criticism (1984)
Henry James Letters to A. Benson and Auguste Monod (1969) (see A C Benson)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/j/henry-james   (394 words)

  
 Henry James
In committing himself to the autobiographical act, James exhibited both confidence in and anxiety about his knowledge of self.
Although James usually demonstrated supreme self-awareness in regard to his art, he does suppress the fact of his illusion in A Small Boy when he calls his pattern "Fate."
A belief in fate, in a broad sense, is a belief in a force presiding over the universe controlling his creation--much in the way an author controls his creation.
http://www.dactyl.org/james.html   (1882 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books Authors James, Henry
Henry James's private life has been the subject of much speculation.
Three of this year's Booker hopefuls chose Henry James as their subject.
Henry James's novel The Bostonians was poorly received, but AS Byatt admires its witty depiction of spiritualist and utopian movements in post-civil war America
http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-92,00.html   (516 words)

  
 HENRY JAMES - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY JAMES
In i86b he returned to America, and began reading law at Harvard, only to find speedily that literature, not law, was what he most cared for.
His father was Henry James (181II882), a theological writer of great originality, from whom both he and his brother Professor William James derived their psychological subtlety and their idiomatic, picturesque English.
Most of Henrys boyhood was spent in Europe, where he studied under tutors in England, France and Switzerland.
http://www.1911ency.org/J/JA/JAMES_HENRY.htm   (645 words)

  
 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
Henry James seems to put his psycological mumbo-jumbo to good use to create a ghastly, dark enviroment.
There is a silence at the centre of Henry Jame's the Turn of the Screw which stubbornly refuses to be filled.
http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/turn_screw   (1282 words)

  
 Henry James
Sponsored by the University of Nebraska Press, this searchable site lists all 10,500 existing letters by James.
An excellent resource for all students and scholars of James, this site houses proofread texts, essays, and many links.
Page images of serialized James novels at the Making of America Site
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/james.htm   (424 words)

  
 Henry James Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
Henry James was born in New York City, the son of a distinguished father of the same name who wrote about theology and philosophy and the younger brother of William James, one of the foremost philosophers of his day.
Due to the frequent travel of his parents his education was scattered between his hometown and the European capital cities of Geneva, Paris and London.
James trained as a lawyer at Harvard in 1862 but finally settled in Europe in 1875 having given up the intention of a legal career.
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/28   (645 words)

  
 the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites * R. Hathaway *
Excerpt from Sheldon Novick's biography of Henry James - concerning his dictation to his stenographers
Several William Faulkner titles, but no Henry James.
Carl Van Doren on Henry James - from The American Novel (1921)
http://www.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway   (5155 words)

  
 New Orleans Jazz Great Henry Red Allen Page
Henry Allen, Jr., an only child, was born to Henry and Juretta Allen, in Algiers, Louisiana (1908), the home base of his father's well known marching band which was formed in 1907 and continued to perform into the early 1950's.
In a career that produced hundreds of recordings, it is a tribute to his dedication to the music, and his personal growth, that recordings made in the 1957-59 period are often cited as his best.
He wasted no time in making a career choice; at 8 he was marching with his dad's band and, at age 15, playing with The New Orleans Stompers led by jazz great George Lewis.
http://www.libertyhall.com/red.html   (2525 words)

  
 Henry James Quotes - The Quotations Page
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 3
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henry_James   (308 words)

  
 American Literature Web Resources: Henry James
"Henry James: A Brief Biography." University of North Carolina Research Guide.
Henry James(1843-1916) complied by Angela Davidson, Millikin University
For James, nothing is to be excluded from his realm of discussion.
http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/jamesbio.html   (502 words)

  
 Henry James
Edith Wharton first met Henry James in the late 1880s, but they did not become friends until after 1900.
He was a famous author nearing the end of his brilliant career but with the masterpieces of his last period yet to come.
Wharton overcame her shyness with James, having discovered that she could talk to him with ease "of the things we both cared about; while he, always so helpful and hospitable to younger writers, at once used his magical faculty of drawing out his interlocutor's inmost self.
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/hjames.htm   (194 words)

  
 The Literary Gothic Henry James
Discussion of the James Family (primarily Henry James and his brother William).
The most famous member of "the James gang"—no, not the Wild West one, the literary/intellectual one; brother William was the noted philosopher.
Of course, James could also write a decent unambiguous ghost story, as in "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" or "Sir Edmund Orme," and these are well worth reading, and in fact in my (classroom) experience usually find a much more receptive audience than "The Turn of the Screw."
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/james.html   (449 words)

  
 PAL: Henry James (1843-1916)
Realism and the Romance: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and American Fiction.
Macnaughton, William R. Henry James: The Later Novels.
Long, Robert E. Henry James, the Early Novels.
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/james.html   (1297 words)

  
 Henry James in Venice
This is how James describes it in the novella:
James had visited Venice for short periods in 1869 and 1872 but his first extended stay in the city took place in 1881.
As his biographer Leon Edel has written, "Venice was one of the greatest topographical love affairs of James's life." Or in James's own words in his essay "Venice: An Early Impression":
http://www.stanford.edu/~evans/Venice   (1284 words)

  
 JAMES HENRY - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES HENRY
See obituary notice by J. Mahaffy in the Academy of the 12th of August 1876, where a list of his works, nearly all of which were privately printed, is given.
The first fruits of his researches were published at Dresden in 1853 under the quaint title Notes of a Twelve Years Voyage of Discovery in i/re first six Books of th Eneis.
Henry was also the author of several poems, some of them descriptive accounts of his travels, and of various pamphlets of a satirical nature.
http://23.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HE/HENRY_JAMES.htm   (300 words)

  
 Henry James - QuickTopic free message board hosting
James, in his person and his work, helped create the modern attitude of high-toned disdain for commerce from which literature derives much of its power in a mass culture.
Why has there been two novels concentrating on mid-period Henry James (who is doing his best grouper fish/lizard impersonation in this photo...)?
I would have blown right by this, but for the hook: "Colm Toibin had an unlikely-sounding model for his new novel, The Master, a fictional account of four years in the life of Henry James.
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 Henry James
See The Notebooks of Henry James, Matthiesen and Murdock, editors, and also Henry James, Autobiography, Frederick Dupee, editor
Recalling an after-dinner visit to Charles Eliot Norton's house in Boston of 1867 (68?), Henry James had this to say of Dickens:
Wonderful was it thus to see, and thrilling inwardly to note, that since the question was of personal values so great no faintest fraction of the whole could succeed in not counting for interest.
http://members.cruzio.com/~varese/dickens/gallery/james.html   (174 words)

  
 American Collection: The American
The first American Collection series commissioned by WGBH is James' The American.
Teacher researched websites on James and The American.
Essays and Lesson Plans focusing on James and/or The American.
http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/american.htm   (44 words)

  
 Henry James
Henry has a MBA in Finance from Temple University and an undergraduate degree in Finance from Southeast Missouri State University.
Prior to his position at the SBDC, Henry worked for a global logistics company based in Taiwan and a mid-size pharmaceutical company in Kuala Lumpur, developing their distribution network.
Henry James brings a strong background in finance and accounting to the SBDC team.
http://cfprod.imt.uwm.edu/sce/staff.cfm?id=1923   (161 words)

  
 Info about Henry James related to custom bicycles
Henry James is Henry James Folson, or more commonly, Hank Folson.
My paternal grandfather died in a car-train collision when my father was a youth, so my first name is Henry, in memory of my grandfather.
On rare occasions, I am asked if Henry James is connected with the famous author.
http://www.henryjames.com/home.html   (371 words)

  
 Henry James (1843-1916)
The preface that James wrote for "Daisy Miller" in the New York edition is illuminating but must be used with care.
The preface was written about thirty years after the story, and James's attitudes had changed somewhat.
Many valuable comparisons can be drawn between "Daisy Miller" and "The Beast in the Jungle." Both stories tell of an aborted romance in which the man distances himself emotionally until it is too late.
http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/james.html   (1007 words)

  
 Henry James - Wikiquote
Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916), brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Wikisource has original works written by or about Henry James.
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_James   (2058 words)

  
 Henry James investment cast steel lugs
This Henry James web site is intended to help your bicycling activities produce the results you are looking for by getting you on the right bike for you.
Henry James Bicycles makes, right here in the USA:
Henry James is your source for top quality American made lugs, jigs, and tubing for custom bicycle frames.
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 Calendar and Register of Henry James Correspondence
This website provides access to a database of all known letters written by Henry James and brief biographical information on the recipients of these letters.
The Henry James Calendar/Register is a work in progress; we welcome any information on extant James correspondence not represented in this resource.
In addition, lists of all publication sources of the letters, the repositories where the letters are held, and statistics of collected letters are provided.
http://jamescalendar.unl.edu   (209 words)

  
 Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia ...
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams
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 The San Antonio College LitWeb Henry James Page
James' major works may be classified as follows: novels, stories, plays, criticism, autobiography, and travel writings, and so (more or less) have they been classified in the Library of America Henry James, probably to be the most accessible collection of James when the work is finished.
Harper, 1985, is a revision and condensation of Edel's five-volume Henry James (1953-1972), the standard life.
Also consult James Criticism from Internet Public Library.
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/hjames.htm   (175 words)

  
 Henry James (I)
Born into a wealthy and intellectual family, Henry James was educated...
Find where Henry James is credited alongside another name
Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Henry James (I)
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 Henry James Society, Inc
a medium of communication for Henry James scholars and expands the possibilities for Henry James studies through annual meetings, special symposiums, and The Henry James Review.
  A non-profit educational organization, the Henry James Society provides
Our mission is to offer Henry James scholars and other interested persons an opportunity to share in the study and
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/jsociety.htm   (65 words)

  
 the Ladder : a Henry James website
I’ve used frames on this Henry James web-site, to provide an easily navigable environment for texts, notes, discussions and so on.
http://www.henryjames.org.uk   (34 words)

  
 The Golden Bowl, by Henry James
He knew everything that could be known about life, which he regarded as, for far the greater part, a matter of pecuniary arrangement.
* Return to "the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites" *
http://www.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/goldenbowl1.html   (18329 words)

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