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Henry James OM (() 15 April 1843 – () 28 February 1916) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
Born into a wealthy family, James was the son of the Swedenborgian theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of both the prominent novelist Henry James and the diarist Alice James. James trained as a physician and taught anatomy at Harvard, but never practiced medicine. Instead, he pursued his interests in psychology and then philosophy.
Notes of a Son and Brother is an autobiography by Henry James published in 1914. The book covers James' early manhood and tells of "the obscure hurt" that kept him out of the Civil War, his first efforts at writing fiction, and the early death of his beloved cousin, Minny Temple, from tuberculosis.
Henry James (brother) Alice James (August 7, 1848 – March 6, 1892) was an American diarist , and the younger sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James . Her relationship with William was unusually close, and she seems to have been badly affected by his marriage.
James and his brother Henry were both romantically interested in their cousin, Eliza de Feuillide, the daughter of their aunt Philadelphia Austen Hancock. [3] Eliza married Henry. [4] Austen married at 27, and was widowed when he was 30. [4] His first wife, Anne Mathew, bore him a daughter, Anna. [5]
Henry James Sr. (June 3, 1811 – December 18, 1882) was an American theologian and the father of the philosopher William James, the novelist Henry James, and the diarist Alice James. Following a dramatic moment of spiritual enlightenment, he became deeply absorbed in Swedenborgianism , repudiating materialism and following the utopian path to ...
James is not condemning or endorsing either New England or Europe.... This small book, written so early in James's career, is a masterpiece of major quality." [4] Others, most notably the author's brother William James, faulted the novel's "slightness." Henry James replied in a 14 November 1878 letter that he somewhat agreed with the criticism:
Joseph Leon Edel (1907 – 1997) was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer.He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel. [1] [2]The Encyclopædia Britannica calls Edel "the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James."