henry james

     

Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter & Cybill Shepherd have all starred in films based on this man's works

Trivia about henry james

  • One of the USA's greatest novelists, he lived most of his life, from 1876 to 1916, in England
  • He wrote the ghost tale "The Turn of the Screw", while his brother William studied spiritualism
  • "Nobody tells fibs in Boston", says Mrs. Luna in chapter one of his 1880s novel "The Bostonians"
  • "The Bostonians"by H.J.
  • In 1898, he turned in "The Turn of the Screw" to his publisher
  • First editions of his "The Portrait of A Lady" & "The Bostonians" each have 3 voulmes
  • His novel "Daisy Miller" opens at the Trois Couronnes hotel in Vevey, Switzerland
  • Cicerone, a synonym for sightseeing guide, appears in his novel "Washington Square"
  • Fans of this author love to stay at Les Trois Couronnes in Switzerland, the setting for his "Daisy Miller"
  • Capote called this writer "Maestro of the Semicolon" & co-wrote a movie version of his "The Turn of the Screw"
  • Like Gertrude in this author's "The Europeans", go ahead & marry a relative (it might get you out of your house, too)
  • This American gained fame in 1878 with his novella "Daisy Miller"
  • This American was living at Lamb House in Rye when he wrote "The Ambassadors" in 1903
  • "Madame de Mauves" was an 1874 novel by this expatriate American
  • Oscar Wilde wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray" & he wrote "The Portrait of A Lady"
  • Etruscans never foresaw in 1875 he'd pen the novel "Roderick Hudson"; "Daisy Miller" would arrive 3 years later
  • "The Golden Bowl" was the last novel by this "Daisy Miller" author
  • Olive Chancellor was into woman's lib in his 1886 novel "The Bostonians"
  • After moving to Europe, this New Yorker wrote his 1890 novel "The Tragic Muse" about the art world of Europe
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls in Washington Square, New York.) As a boy he lived right here in the area & later wrote "Washington Square", whose heroine prefers it to any other habitation
  • In "The Master", Colm Tóibín enters the mind of this great 19th & 20th century novelist
  • Composer Douglas Moore took flight with "The Wings of the Dove", based on a 1902 novel by this author
  • 1904's "The Golden Bowl" was one of my last novels; I later became a British subject
  • Joseph Conrad took us into the "Heart of Darkness" & this author took us on "The Wings of the Dove"
  • He received international fame in 1878 for his story about Daisy Miller, an American flirt in Europe
  • Wrote "The Turn of the Screw"
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Caffe Florian in Venice, Italy.) I'm at Caffe Florian, a favorite spot of this U.S.-born author, who wrote about it in "The Wings of the Dove" and "The Aspern Papers"
  • "The Portrait of a Lady"