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Daisy Miller was an immediate and widespread popular success for James, despite some criticism that the story was "an outrage on American girlhood". [5] The story continues to be one of James' most popular works, along with The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady .
Daisy Miller holds a 71% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews. [15] On Metacritic, it has a score of 48%, based on reviews from 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [16] Quentin Tarantino later said "the film starts off a little bizarre. The tone at the beginning is a little off putting. You’re not quite sure if it works.
Writer Henry James was among the authors who popularized the term "New Woman," a figure who was represented in the heroines of his novels—among them the title character of the novella Daisy Miller (serialized 1878) and Isabel Archer in Portrait of a Lady (serialized 1880–81). According to historian Ruth Bordin, the term New Woman was:
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest.
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Barrett, Dorothea. “Lions, Christians, and Gladiators: Colosseum Imagery in Henry James's Daisy Miller and Edith Wharton's ‘Roman Fever.’” Remember Henry James Conference, March 2014, Florence, Italy. Conference Presentation. Bauer, Dale M. “‘Roman Fever’: A Rune of History.”
Washington Square is a novel written in 1880 by Henry James about a father's attempts to thwart a romance between his naïve daughter and the man he believes wishes to marry her for her money.