Relations will stop at nothing
Philip Horne, 5 March 1987
The Whole Family: A Novel by 12 Authors
by Henry James and William Dean Howells, edited by Elizabeth Jordan, introduced by Alfred Bendixen.
Ungar (USA), 392 pp., $9.95, June 1986,0 8044 6036 1 Show More
by Henry James and William Dean Howells, edited by Elizabeth Jordan, introduced by Alfred Bendixen.
Ungar (USA), 392 pp., $9.95, June 1986,
‘Friction with the Market’: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship
by Michael Anesko.
Oxford, 272 pp., £21.50, January 1987,0 19 504034 1 Show More
by Michael Anesko.
Oxford, 272 pp., £21.50, January 1987,
“... Henry James was a perfectionist, though not a humourless one, about his public appearance and appearances: hence the pleasure taken by certain anecdotalists in showing him out of control – of situations, conversations, himself, others. That he danced a cake-walk in 1899 and was photographed with a mouthful of doughnut intrigues us, as a treasurable departure from the magisterial dignity we mainly like to impute to him ... ”