Abolitionism, 17, 18, 99, 126, 209
Acton, Lord, 61
Adam Bede (Eliot), 57, 64–65, 195, 216
Adams, Clover Hooper, 40–42, 102, 143, 148, 258, 259
Adams, Henry, 40–41, 98, 102, 139, 143, 148, 149, 244, 258, 259
Adams, John, 115
Adriatic Sea, 166, 172
adultery, 90, 199, 303, 326–27
in Gustave Flaubert, 68, 195, 303
Aeneid (Virgil), 231
aestheticism, 83, 84, 138
Agassiz, Louis, 18
Age of Innocence, The (Wharton), 91, 149, 206–7
Albany, N.Y., 321
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 166, 173, 208
Alexander, George, 289–91
Allied powers, 323
Alps, 33, 101
American Academy, Rome, 319
American exceptionalism, 36, 114–15, 278
American literature, 17
British reaction against, 244–49, 267
future of, 31–32
literary history of, 34
local color and regionalism in, 129, 178, 246
novel of manners and, 26
The Portrait of a Lady as, xvii
realist, 25–26
romances in, 36, 69
sentimental, 25
William Dean Howells on, 26
analytical method of characterization, 242–43
Andersen, Hendrik, xxii, 88, 297–98, 299, 304, 328
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 113, 271, 303, 332
Anne, Queen of England, 99
Antietam, Battle of, 19
Archer, Isabel (char.), xv, xvii, 8, 81, 85–86, 103, 121, 131, 149, 151, 171–72, 173, 196, 198, 207, 214, 243, 244, 310–17, 321
American newness of, 270
appearance of, 7
character of, 6–11, 66–67, 75, 105–6, 115, 116–17, 242
clothes conversation of, 113–15, 163
as desiring to depart from past, 114
elements of HJ in, 50, 270
Europe’s meaning to, 126, 223
George Eliot’s influence on, 66
Gilbert Osmond’s fascination for, 134–37, 155–59, 162–64, 276, 311, 328, 329
Gilbert Osmond’s restrictions on, 162–64, 225, 230–31, 232–33, 234, 238, 269, 273, 274–75, 313, 325, 326
independence of, 4, 6, 51–54, 71, 75–76, 158, 161, 163, 223, 252, 315, 329–30
inner life of, 9, 175, 311, 313, 334
as a “lady,” 10–11, 224
limits on freedom of, xviii–xix, 69, 76, 111–12, 223–24, 238, 270–73, 277–79, 283, 295, 326–27
marriage of, 136, 159–61, 164, 166, 214, 221, 222–38, 271–77, 303–4
marriage plot resisted by, xviii, 9, 69–76, 106–7, 109, 112, 113, 157, 160
Minny Temple as original of, 27, 46–50
power of knowledge for, 279
Ralph Touchett’s bequest to, 110–11, 114, 125, 134, 137, 162, 225, 272–73, 279, 316–17, 327
Ralph Touchett’s relationship with, 50–51, 54
reactions of others to, 6–7
reflections on married life by, 229–38
return to Rome by, 327–34
in Rome, 141–43, 149, 150, 174, 222, 225–26, 269–70, 271, 312, 325
sadness of, 213, 269, 271, 324–25
separation considered by, 273, 333
sexual desire of, 234–36, 237–38, 327–30
spontaneity and individuality of, 6, 67, 271
on taste vs. wealth, 137
travels of, 161
as voice of American exceptionalism, 114–15
Arno, 122, 126, 149
Arnold, Matthew, 158, 210
Arthur, Chester A., 259
“Art of Fiction, The” (Besant), 246
Aspects of the Novel (Forster), 248–49
Asquith, H. H., 323
Assommoir, L’ (Zola), 39, 200–201, 252
Athenaeum, 79, 97–98
Athenaeum, 220
Athens, 180
Atlanta Constitution, 220
Atlantic Monthly, xiv, xix, 13, 23, 25, 37, 98, 129, 130, 199, 265, 305
“Contributors’ Club” in, 210, 218, 250
HJ serialized in, 24, 34, 43, 44, 71, 100, 101, 103, 104, 130, 166, 173, 208–13, 215, 217–21, 222, 284
The Portrait of a Lady reviewed in, 241
Austen, Jane, 5, 35, 57, 68, 72, 75, 192, 234
Austria, 166
autocracy, 315
Avignon, 166
Baden-Baden, 39
Bad Nauheim, 320
Baedeker, 147, 166
Bakunin, Mikhail, 126
Baldwin, William, 183
Balzac, Honoré de, 35, 52, 58, 68, 98, 113, 192, 314–15
Barberini, Cardinal, 145
Barings Bank, 49
Bayreuth, 92, 93, 94
Beerbohm, Max, 300
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 111
Belgium, 322, 323
Bellosguardo, 122, 133, 135, 138, 226, 277
Bennett, Arnold, 290
Benson, A. C., xxii
Berlin, 80
Besant, Walter, 246
Bien Public, La, 200–201
bigamy, 195
“Birthmark, The” (Hawthorne), 315
Bismarck, Otto von, 33
Blackmur, R. P., 318
Blackwood’s, 194, 241–42, 244, 331
Bleak House (Dickens), 68, 131, 215, 216, 218
Boboli Gardens, 121
Bologna, 126
Boott, Elizabeth (Lizzie), 41, 123, 128, 131, 138, 148, 176, 180, 321
Boott, Frank, 123, 128, 131, 138–39, 148, 176, 180, 182, 183, 321
Bosanquet, Theodora, 88, 101, 310, 312, 321, 324
Boston, Mass., xv, 18, 23, 37, 40, 93, 150, 209, 210, 240, 257, 258, 259, 260, 263, 265, 281, 331
Charles Dickens’s visit to, 25
“Boston Mutual Admiration Society,” 246
Boston Public Library, 170–71
“Boule de Suif” (Maupassant), 197
Bright, John, 104
Brighton, 103
British Empire, 210
Bronson, Katharine De Kay, 137, 168, 185
Brontë, Anne, 208–9
Brontë, Charlotte, 68, 131, 208–9, 241
Brontë, Emily, 208–9
Brooke, Dorothea (char.), 7, 9, 52, 63–65, 68–70, 142, 217, 220, 234–35, 244, 271, 331–32
Brooks, Peter, 198
Brownell, W. C., 241
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 121, 146, 149, 150
Browning, Robert, 8, 102, 121, 146, 149, 150, 169, 265
“Buried Life, The” (Arnold), 158
Burne-Jones, Edward, 61
Burroughs, John, 210
Byron, Allegra, 178
Byron, Lord George Gordon, 172, 178, 209
Cable, George Washington, 244
Cairo, 180
California, xv
Californian (San Francisco), 241
Cambridge, Mass., 23, 24, 89, 93, 101, 103, 123, 148, 150, 199, 299, 318
Cambridge Cemetery, 257, 261, 263, 324
Campagna, 269
Canada, 49
“Candour in Fiction,” 195
Caravaggio, 143, 225
Carlyle, Thomas, 210, 265
Casa Semitecolo, 181, 188
categorical imperative, 314–15
Cenci, Beatrice, 226
Cenci, The (Shelley), 226
Centro Studi Americani, 226
Century, 209, 243, 282
Cervantes, Miguel de, 192
Chanel, Coco, 197
characters, characterization:
analytical method of, 242–43
of Constance Fenimore Woolson, 130–31
of George Eliot, xxiv, 7, 52, 244, 271, 276
of HJ, 40, 46–47, 74–75, 139, 242–43
of Ivan Turgenev, 39–40
novel of incident vs. novel of, 248–49
Charleston, S.C., xx
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 59
Cheever, John, 86, 143–44
Cheltenham, 180
Child, Theodore, 249–50
China, RMS, 12
Christian socialism, 209
Christmas Garland, A (Beerbohm), 300
Civil War, U.S., xv, xx, 8, 23, 40, 109, 259, 265
black Union regiments in, 18
James family and, 16, 17–19, 77, 322–23
Clairmont, Claire, 178–79
Claudian Aqueduct, 153
Claudius, Emperor of Rome, 153
Clay & Taylor, 240
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, xxiii, 1, 55
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 153
Colonna, Vittoria, 136
Compton, Edward, 287–89
Compton Comedy Company, 287
Concord Academy, 17
Confederate States of America, 40
Conrad, Joseph, xxii, 218–19, 231, 237, 253, 280, 300
consciousness, 199, 302–3, 304
Cooper, James Fenimore, 69, 122, 128
copyright:
international, 42, 212–13
and New York Edition, 319
Cornhill, 104, 209, 212
Cornwall, 45
Cortona, Pietro da, 225
Country Life, 48
Covent Garden, 99
Crane, Stephen, 246, 330
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), 251
Cross, John, 57–60
biography of George Eliot by, 65
HJ’s letters to, 57, 59, 61
Curtis, Ariana, 168–69, 182
Curtis, Daniel, 168–69
Daniel Deronda (Eliot), 8, 58, 63, 66, 68–69, 231, 276
Dante Alighieri, 32, 94
Darwin, Charles, 209
Daudet, Alphonse, 198, 199, 243, 249–50
Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, The, 334
David Copperfield (Dickens), 215, 216
Débâcle, La (Zola), 251–52
Democracy (Adams), 244
Dencombe (char.), xiv
Detroit Free Press, 220
Dickens, Charles, 61, 68,, 98, 99, 131, 152, 202, 315
American visit of, 25, 89
audience of, xix, 202, 215, 241
HJ on, 26, 58, 244–45, 247
serialization and, 209, 215, 216, 218, 231
structure of novels of, 63–64, 216, 218, 231, 247
Dictionary of National Biography, 49
divorce, 273
G. H. Lewes unable to obtain, 58
in What Maisie Knew, 294–95
dollar princesses, 109
Domenichino, 225
Don Juan (Byron), 172
Donne, John, 299
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 251
Douglas, Lord Alfred, 83
Dreiser, Theodore, 246
Du Maurier, George, 286
Duncan, Isadora, 126
Edel, Leon, 13, 18, 131, 260–61, 289
Edinburgh, 320
Egypt, 161
elections:
of 1852, 32
of 1860, 17, 23
of 1872, 134
of 1877, 101
Eliot, George, xvi, 8–9, 75, 142, 195, 241, 242, 314
appearance of, 62
characterization in, xxiv, 7, 52, 244, 271, 276
compelling talk by, 61–62
Cross’s marriage to, 57–60
death of, 61, 245, 264
HJ’s critical and admiring opinion of, 26, 62–67, 68, 82, 96, 267
HJ’s visits to, 61
marriage in novels by, 68–70, 231–32, 325, 331–32
serialization and, 212, 216–17, 218
structure in novels of, 231–32, 234–36
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 148, 271
death of, 264
HJ on, 265
self-reliance as concept of, xix, 52, 114–15, 252, 315
Engelberg, 208
England, 12, 101, 180, 181, 227, 305, 323
divorce in, 273
HJ in, 27, 28, 37, 165, 192
English Review, 218
Europe, 304
American novelists and, 31–32
Americans in, 145–46, 149–54
anonymous sexuality in, 90
coming to terms with, 259
HJ’s American acquaintances in, 123
Madame Merle as voice of, 114
national traditions in, 32
significance of, 114–15, 126, 278, 305
Evans, Isaac, 59
Evans, Mary Ann, see Eliot, George
Evans, Robert, 58
Examiner, 220–21
expatriates, 145–46, 149–54
dollar princesses, 109
Europeanized, 79
in Florence, 167, 177
Gilbert Osmond as exemplary type of, 124, 163
HJ as, xii, xv, xxii, 31, 34, 54, 77–78, 79, 80, 95, 102, 126, 197, 239–40, 281, 305
in HJ’s novels, 37, 134, 280, 283, 300–301, 303, 309
in Italy, 125–26, 138
in Paris, 146, 165–66, 169
in Rome, 138, 142, 145, 149–50, 166, 167, 226, 319
in Venice, 167, 168–69
False Dawn (Wharton), 139
Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), 328
Father and Son (Gosse), 83
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev), 39
Faulkner, William, 156, 231, 237, 302, 321
Fields, Annie, 37
Fields, J. T., 23, 24
Fiesole, 38, 127
54th Massachusetts Infantry, 18
Figaro, Le, 166
Fille Elisa, La (Goncourt), 199
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 278
Flaubert, Gustave, 9, 78, 107, 192, 202
adultery as theme of, 68, 195, 303
death of, 264, 267
James Fitzjames Stephen on, 193–94
literary descendants of, 250–51
literary gatherings of, 39, 90, 96, 197–201, 249–50, 265–66
Fletcherizing, 319
Florence, 138, 141, 148, 155, 158, 159, 160, 176, 180
expatriates in, 167, 177
Gilbert Osmond in, 133–34, 142, 157, 196
HJ in, xviii, xix, xxiv, 28, 38, 41, 42, 44, 92, 94, 126–28, 130–32, 166, 173, 176–79, 181, 258, 321
Michael Gorra in, 121–24, 138, 177
Nathaniel Hawthorne in, 122, 125–26
partial modernization of, 121–22
“Florentine Experiment, A” (Woolson), 130–31
Florian’s, 168
Florida, xv, 27, 308, 309
Forster, E. M., 248–49
Fourier, Charles, 14
France, 12, 39, 166, 321
HJ’s works little known in, 250
manifestos in, 245
novels in, 193–204, 244, 246, 249, 250–53
political upheaval in, 33
theater in, 287
Franco-Prussian War, 33, 197, 252
Freud, Sigmund, 75, 252, 281
Fullerton, Morton, 79, 88–89, 298–99
Fusato, Angelo, 84–85, 169, 181–82
Gainsborough, Thomas, 165
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 262
Garfield, James, 259
Garland, Hamlin, xxii
Garrick, David, 287
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 69, 195, 214
Gautier, Théophile, 199–200
Gemini, Countess (char.), 135, 140, 196, 207, 268–69, 275–78
Geneva, 179–80, 181
Genoa, 166
George II, King of England, xxii
Germany, 33, 322, 323
Germinal (Zola), 198, 201
Gilded Age, 33–34, 72, 251, 259, 306
Giotto di Bodone, 130
Gladstone, William Ewart, 60, 99, 101
Glastonbury, 210
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 59, 141, 152, 154
Goncourt, Edmond de, 197–99, 202, 250
Goncourt, Jules de, 198
Goodwood, Caspar (char.), 9, 69, 72, 75, 106–7, 114, 133, 136, 227, 268
Isabel Archer’s final encounter with, 325–31
Isabel Archer’s rejection of, 157, 161–62, 163, 222
Gordon, Lyndall, 29, 128, 174, 182–83, 184, 315
Gosse, Edmund, 83, 84–85, 90–91, 170, 176, 286, 289, 323
HJ’s letters to, 197
Gould, Jay, 34
Gounod, Charles, 8
Gower, Lord Ronald, 297
Grahame, Kenneth, 49
Grant, Ulysses S., 134
Gray, John, 22, 28
Great American Novel, HJ’s mockery of, xv
Great Expectations (Dickens), 98, 216
Greece, 161
Greek Slave (Powers), 126
Greene, Graham, 160
Grove, George, 211
Guggenheim Collection, 181
Haggard, H. Rider, 252
Hardwick Court, 1, 47–49
Hardy, Thomas, xxii, 25, 64, 195, 245, 249, 304, 328
Harleth, Gwendolen (char.), 63, 66, 69, 231, 276
Harper’s, xiv, 42, 128, 178, 209, 210, 246
Harte, Bret, 246
Harvard Annex, 282
Harvard Law School, 19, 20, 22
Harvard University, xvi, 17, 24, 32, 40, 50, 54, 306
Lawrence Scientific School at, 18
medical school at, 18
William James as professor at, 38, 101, 264
Haussman, Baron Georges-Eugène, 122
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, xx, 17, 25, 112, 148–49, 209, 315
on Europe and the American novelist, 31–32, 35, 278
in Florence, 122, 125–26
HJ’s book on, 34–37, 41, 44, 114
“imported” sense of sin of, 151
in Rome, 143, 145, 147, 152, 205
Hawthorne, Una, 205
Hay, John, 176, 182
Haymarket Theatre, 290
Hazard of New Fortunes, A (Howells), 24
Hemingway, Ernest, 323–24
“Henry James, Jr.” (Howells), 243–47
Henry James at Work (Bosanquet), 88, 101
Henry James Goes to Paris (Brooks), 198
“History” (Emerson), 115
Hockley, E. M., 12
Hogarth Press, 88
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 19, 22, 32, 89
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 210
Holmes, Sherlock (char.), 286
Homer, 99, 231
Homer, Winslow, 191–92, 194, 205
homosexuality:
of Alice James, 282
of HJ, xviii, xxii, 13, 78–94, 170, 184, 185–86, 187, 290, 297–99, 304, 328
illegality of, 83–84
of John Addington Symonds, 83–86
of Oscar Wilde, 78, 83, 85, 290, 299
Horace Chase (Woolson), 181
Hosmer, Harriet, 125, 147
Hôtel de l’Arno, 121
Houghton, H. O., 210
Houghton, Mifflin, 103, 208, 210, 211, 239–40
Household Words, 214
House of Mirth, The (Wharton), 307
Howells, William Dean, 41, 129, 241
at Atlantic, 23–25, 43, 101, 104, 166, 199, 208, 213, 215, 219, 246
HJ’s friendship with, 24–26, 130, 215
HJ’s letters to, 43, 53, 90, 96, 199, 202, 208, 211, 249, 284
as novelist, 37, 127, 148, 234, 239, 241–45, 251, 273
on The Portrait of a Lady, 104, 243–47
Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 36
Hughes, Linda K., 215, 219
Hugo, Victor, 243
“Humble Remonstrance, A” (Stevenson), 248
Hunt, William Morris, 15, 17
Hutton, R. H., 242, 331
Ibsen, Henrik, 83, 288
Ideal Husband, An (Wilde), 290
illegitimacy, 195
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde), 83, 291
“Importance of Elsewhere, The” (Larkin), 79
Indian Summer (Howells), 127, 148
Inferno (Dante), 94
Interior in Venice, An, 169
Irving, Henry, 287
Isherwood, Christopher, 79–80
Italian Riviera, 166
Italy, 12, 134, 161
American expatriate community in, 125–26, 138, 146–50
Constance Fenimore Woolson in, 176
divorce barred in, 273
English expatriates in, 146–48
HJ in, 28, 37, 44, 165, 168, 172, 176, 181, 199
as new nation, 166
Risorgimento in, 150
standard of beauty in, 127
James, Alice (sister), 21, 38, 262, 265
Boston marriage of, 281–82
death of, 16, 266
European travels of, 33, 258
HJ’s letters to, xx, 93, 94, 103, 104, 128, 130, 180, 287
illness of, 16, 261, 263, 281, 320
inheritance of, 264
James, Alice (sister-in-law), 78, 101, 258, 282, 320, 321, 324
James, Bob, 15, 17, 27, 32, 261
in Civil War, 18
James, Henry:
as American in Europe, 259
on American life and identity, 31, 32, 33, 34–37, 41–42, 53–54
as American triumphalist, 242
appearance and personality of, xix–xx
aspirations to greatness by, xv
biographies of, 78
brand identity of, 42
British citizenship taken by, 323–24
Cambridge burial of ashes of, 261
career choices and, 16–17
as central figure in history of the novel, 237
childhood travels of, 15–16
cigarette smoking by, xxi
Civil War and, 18–19, 23, 77
commitment to his work by, 38
Constance Fenimore Woolson’s relationship with, 175–78, 179–82
correspondence burned by, 81
death of, 324
depression of, 319–20
disengagement from public life by, 16, 33
early writing career of, 20–21, 23, 24–25, 34
emotional inabilities of, 30
in engineering school, 15
Englishness of, 307
evil as conceived by, 273, 315–16
as expatriate, xii, xv, xxii, 31, 34, 54, 77–78, 79, 80, 95, 102, 126, 197, 239–40, 281, 305
family and background of, 13–16
family expectations and, 80
first adult European visit of, 12, 27–28, 126
French fluency of, 16, 123
at Harvard Law School, 19, 20
health of, 18–20, 27, 319–20, 322
homosexuality of, xviii, xxii, 13, 78–94, 170, 184, 185–86, 187, 290, 297–99, 304, 328
independence as value of, 126
inheritance of, 264
letters of, xxii–xxiii, 27, 28–30, 38, 59, 77, 80, 89–90, 105, 131, 184, 262, 264, 298, 299; see also specific recipients
letters to family by, 59, 91, 96, 101, 104, 138, 148, 149, 150, 153, 165, 198, 211
literary reputation of, 284–85
loneliness of, 88
longing for travel by, 27, 33
marriage refused by, xvii–xviii, 45, 77–81, 131, 175, 184
as “The Master,” xix
Max Beerbohm’s caricatures of, 300
on Nana, 201–3
notebooks of, 264, 293–94
Order of Merit awarded to, 324
output of, 264
passing of parents’ generation noted by, 264–67
photographs and, xx, xxii–xxiii, 47, 255
portraits of, 17, 322, 333–34
at Quincy Street, 24, 26, 32
returns to America by, xv, xvii, 34, 80, 257–64, 305–8, 320–21
revisions by, xiv–xv, xxi, xxii–xxiii, 308, 309–19
scenic method of novelistic construction by, 21
secrecy in art of, 184
secretaries of, xxi–xxii, xxiv, 88, 165, 295, 297, 310, 321, 324
social nature of, 79, 97–98, 99, 165, 286
subsequent career of, 280–81
on taste and aestheticism, 137–38
transatlantic world of, 12, 37, 283
translation discouraged by, 250
William Dean Howells’s friendship with, 23–26, 130, 215
William James’s family and papers of, 78
on Winslow Homer, 191–92
writing habits of, xxi, 165, 168, 295, 318
James, Henry, works by:
“The Altar of the Dead,” 186, 266, 286
The Ambassadors, xv, 37, 86, 91, 157, 180, 199, 293–94, 300, 303–5, 311
The American, xvi, xxiii, 43, 44, 198, 201, 213, 250, 287–88, 292, 310
“American Journal,” 93–94, 99, 258–59, 267
The American Scene, xv, xx, 34, 307, 309, 317
“The Art of Fiction,” xvii, 74, 194–95, 235, 246–49, 250–51, 267
The Art of the Novel, 318
The Aspern Papers, 86, 174, 178–79, 180, 185, 284
“The Author of ‘Beltraffio,’ ” 82–85, 86, 285
autobiography of, 20, 28, 123, 160, 259, 265, 321–22
The Awkward Age, 90, 204, 293–94
“The Beast in the Jungle,” 36, 87, 186–87, 315
The Bostonians, 176, 281–83, 287
“Brooksmith,” 30
character as central in, 40, 46–47, 74–75, 139, 242–43, 274
comic writing in, 268–69
Confidence, 44
consciousness depicted in, 199, 302–3, 304
critical successes of, 44
Daisy Miller, xvi, xvii, xix, 10–11, 41–42, 99, 102, 141–42, 169, 188, 204–6, 211, 212, 244, 250, 277, 286, 287, 304, 321
deathbed scenes in, 107–9
“The Death of the Lion,” 86, 285
elaborate late style in, 294, 295, 301–2
endings of, 318
essays by, 280
The Europeans, 26, 43, 62
expatriates in, 37, 124, 134, 163, 280, 283, 300–301, 303, 309
“The Figure in the Carpet,” 86
free indirect discourse in, 302
“The Friends of the Friends,” 186, 266
ghost stories, 108, 186–87, 260, 266
The Golden Bowl, 90, 100, 109, 149, 157, 199, 232, 237, 300–305, 307–8, 312, 317, 327, 328
“Greville Fane,” 265
Guy Domville, 289–92, 293
Hawthorne, 34–37, 41, 44, 114, 163, 323
“An International Episode,” 42
international theme in, 37, 134, 280, 283, 300–301, 303, 309
In the Cage, 86
Italian Hours, 137, 225
“Italy Revisited,” 123, 138
The Ivory Tower, 318
“The Jolly Corner,” 82, 87, 186
journalism of, 96, 100, 104, 198, 318
kisses in, 327, 333
“The Last of the Valerii,” 160
“Lesson of the Master,” 82, 285
“London Town” planned by, 99
“Madame de Mauves,” 37, 160
“Madonna of the Future,” 127
major phase of, 157, 302–3
march of action in, 294
“The Middle Years,” xiv, 285, 288, 293
New York Edition of, xiii–xiv, xvi, xix, xxii–xxiii, 8, 100, 111, 211, 241, 266, 307–8, 309–19, 322; see also Portrait of a Lady, The, revisions of
“The Next Time,” 285
Notes of a Son and Brother, 321–22
as not for everyone, 241
“Pandora,” 42
“A Passionate Pilgrim,” 37
“The Pension Beaurepas,” 42
pirating of, 42
plot in, 25, 40, 66, 244, 245
point of view in, 318
“Poor Richard,” 24
The Portrait of a Lady, see Portrait of a Lady, The
prefaces to, 312, 317–18, 332
The Princess Casamassima, 98, 100, 176, 282–83, 287, 318
“The Private Life,” 87
queer readings of, 187
“The Real Right Thing,” 266
“The Real Thing,” 30, 286
renunciations and solitude of, 87
reviews by, 28, 40–41, 58, 62–67, 201–3, 265–67
Roderick Hudson, 25, 34, 44, 78, 88, 123, 128, 148–49, 152, 213, 298, 332
“The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” 26, 185
“A Roman Holiday,” 152–53
“Roman Rides,” 37, 153–54, 159, 270
sales of, xii, xix, xxii, 43, 44, 112, 181, 212, 214, 219–20, 239–40, 284, 286, 287, 318–19, 322
scenic method in, 293–94
secular world of, 108–9, 317
The Sense of the Past, 318
sexuality in, see sexuality
A Small Boy and Others, 264, 321
The Spoils of Poynton, 293
stories about artists by, 285
for theater, 170, 181, 286–92, 293, 294
time in, 321
The Tragic Muse, 64, 180, 211, 275, 282–84, 287
Transatlantic Sketches, 34
“Travelling Companions,” 37
travel writing, 78, 123–24, 126, 137, 152, 167, 243, 280
The Turn of the Screw, xix, 86, 186, 315, 326
use of Italian settings in, 138–39
“Venice,” 167, 171–72, 243
Washington Square, 40, 44, 70, 99, 101, 294, 309, 315
What Maisie Knew, xxi, 90, 294–95, 300, 304, 315
William Wetmore Story and His Friends, 144–45, 149, 317
The Wings of the Dove, 29–30, 109, 157, 174, 187, 303, 307
James, Henry, Sr., 14, 17–18, 20, 210, 219, 260–61, 321
depression and death of, 257, 261, 262–65, 280
HJ’s letters to, 61, 92, 105
Quincy Street house of, 24, 38
travels abroad with family by, 15–16, 36
James, Henry “Harry” (nephew), 258, 319–20
James, Mary Walsh, 14, 16, 24, 258
HJ’s letters to, 29, 43, 80
illness and death of, 259–61, 262, 265, 280
James, Wilky, 15, 17, 20, 27, 32, 261
in Civil War, 18, 323
James, William, xvi, xxii, 21, 32, 180, 260, 261, 306, 307, 314
Beacon Hill residence of, 258
criticisms of HJ’s works by, 43, 105, 321
European travels of, 27
as Harvard professor, 24, 38, 101, 264
as Harvard student, 18
health of, 20, 27
Henry James, Sr.’s death and, 257, 262–63, 264
on HJ, 16
HJ’s letters to, 29, 33, 58, 61, 80, 84–85, 96, 105, 143, 148, 177, 263, 283, 286, 292, 299
HJ’s relationship with, 13–14
illness and death of, 319–20, 324
on individuality, 115–16
inheritance of, 264
letters of, 38, 58
marriage of, 14, 20, 24, 80, 281
as painter, 15, 17
pragmatism of, 32, 105
stream of consciousness defined by, 230, 234–35
summer house of, 307, 320–21
visits to HJ by, 38, 101–2, 121, 127–28, 258
writings of, 13, 102, 115–16, 260, 320
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 68
Jarves, James Jackson, 139
Jennings, L. J., 244–45, 246
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 129, 210
John Blackwood, 59
Joyce, James, 10
Jupiter Lights (Woolson), 180
Kant, Immanuel, 314–15
Kantian sublime, 159
Kaplan, Fred, 78, 185
Keats, John, 142, 188
Kemble, Fanny, 99, 148
Kensington Gardens, 285, 292
Kettle, Arnold, 277
King Lear (Shakespeare), 273
Kipling, Rudyard, xxii, 300
“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 153
Ku Klux Klan, 27
Labour Party, 209
“Lady or the Tiger, The” (Stockton), 243
La Farge, John, 17
Lake Erie, Battle of, 17
Lamb House, xii, xx–xxii, 88, 97, 145, 184, 296–97, 305
language, American, xv
Larkin, Philip, 79
Lawrence, D. H., 253, 330
Leckie, Barbara, 303
Lee, Vernon, 131
lesbianism, 282
Lettres de mon Moulin (Daudet), 249
Lewes, George Henry, 58–60, 61–62
Lewes, Mary Ann Evans, see Eliot, George
Lewes, Thornton, 62
Lewis, R. W. B., 114
libraries:
commercial lending, 193, 304
free, 240
Mudie’s, 193, 219, 240, 253
Library of Congress, 212
Lily (char.), 161
Lincoln, Abraham, 17, 18, 23
Linton, Eliza Lynn, 195
Lippincott’s, 146, 242
Liverpool, 12, 32
local color stories, 129, 178
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 41
London, 40–41, 45, 170, 180, 262, 287, 324
Bolton Street flat in, 96–97, 192–93, 208, 257, 258–59, 261, 285, 296
on the brink of modernity, 100
Cheyne Walk apartment in, 322
Constance Fenimore Woolson in, 175–76
De Vere Gardens flat in, 285–86, 292, 296
HJ in, xvii, xviii, xxi, 34, 40–42, 77, 79, 88, 103, 123, 165, 168, 249, 295–96
HJ’s, 99–100, 286
HJ’s move to, 95–101
Isabel Archer’s November walk in, 161
theater in, 287–92
Loring, Katherine, 281–82
Lorrain, Claude, 153
Loseley Park, 49
Lowell, James Russell, 89, 210
Lowell, Mass., 123
Lund, Michael, 215, 219
MacAlpine, William, 295, 297
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 269
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 121, 136
Macmillan, 34, 43, 98, 103, 208, 219, 239–40, 284, 318
Macmillan, Alexander, 211
Macmillan, Frederick, 44, 211, 213
Macmillan’s Magazine, xix, 44, 103, 104, 173, 174, 208–14, 217
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 68, 107, 192, 194, 195, 202, 303
James Fitzjames Stephen on, 193–94
Mario Vargas Llosa on, 250–51
Madame X, 224, 334
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Crane), 330
Maine, 129
Main-Travelled Roads (Garland), xxii
“Maison Tellier, La” (Maupassant), 199
malaria, 205
Malvern, 28
Marble Faun, The (Hawthorne), 35, 112, 122, 145, 148–49
Marie (cousin), 20–21
Marlborough, Duke of, 109
Marseilles, 166
Mason, Alice, 148
Master, The (Tóibín), 91
Mattei family, 225
Matthiessen, F. O., 311
Maupassant, Guy de, 39, 196–99, 246, 251, 252
McClellan, Katherine, 255
Medici dukes, 121
Melville, Herman, 36, 69, 209
Mengin, Urbain, 89
Meredith, George, 210
Merle, Madame (char.), 111–16, 124–25, 133–37, 149, 151, 161, 174–75, 220, 222–24, 226, 232, 238, 271, 279, 305, 310, 314, 315, 327
Gilbert Osmond’s relationship with, 139–40, 224, 227, 228, 268, 272–77, 303–4
Metastasio (Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi), 136
Middlemarch (Eliot), xxiv, 7, 8, 9, 142, 234–36, 244
HJ on, 58, 62–67
marriage plot of, 68–70, 73, 231, 331–32
serialization of, 212, 216–17, 220
Milan, 166
Mill, John Stuart, 58
Mill on the Floss, The (Eliot), 9, 57, 216
Milton, John, xix, 277, 326
Milwaukee, Wisc., 27, 261
Mind, 235
“Miss Grief” (Woolson), 129, 184
Moby-Dick (Melville), 36
Modern Instance, A (Howells), 251, 273
modernism:
HJ and, 77, 300
The Portrait of a Lady and, xvi
suspicion of plot in, 249
Modern Lover, A (Moore), 193
Montaigne, Michel de, 45
Moore, George, 193, 252
Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Shaw), 290
Mudie, Charles Edward, 193
Mudie’s lending library, 193, 219, 240, 253
Murdoch, Iris, 271
Murray’s Handbook of Rome, 146, 147
Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe), 112
Nadal, E. S., 80, 85
Nana (Zola), 40–41, 90, 198, 201–3
Naples, 44, 92, 93, 130, 276
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 166, 324
Nation, 23, 34, 104, 220, 241
National Gallery, 102
National Portrait Gallery, 322
naturalism, 26, 200, 249, 283
William Dean Howells and, 251
Nest of Gentlefolk, A (Turgenev), 39
neurasthenia, 180
New Hampshire, 321
New Novel, The, 191–92, 194, 205
Newport, R.I., xv, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, 123, 138, 168, 296, 297, 306, 321, 323
New Woman, 253
New York, N.Y., xv, 12, 13, 33–34, 36, 96, 126, 191, 259, 262, 270, 306
New York Sun, 7–8, 241
New York Tribune, 96, 198
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 252
Ninci, Giuseppe, 119
Normandy, 199
Norris, Frank, 26
North American Review, 20, 32, 38, 40, 104
North and South (Gaskell), 214
Northanger Abbey (Austen), 192
North Conway, N.H., 21, 23
Norton, Charles Eliot, 32, 45, 89
HJ’s letters to, 32–33, 60
Norton, Grace, 45–47, 89
George Eliot’s friendship with, 62
HJ’s letters to, 45–46, 81, 86, 93, 126
nouveau roman, 251
novels, 36
American, see American literature
censorship of, 192–94, 201
of character vs. novel of incident, 248–49
Continental, 68
cost of, 192
French, 193–204, 244, 246, 249, 250–53
Great American, xv
limits on autonomy in, 278
narrative disjunctions in, 231–32
naturalism in, 26, 200, 249, 251, 283
realist, 25–26, 314
Victorian, see Victorian novels
William James’s dismissive judgment of, 43
Novick, Sheldon, 89
Odyssey (Homer), 231
Oliphant, Margaret, 194, 214
American literature criticized by, 244
The Portrait of a Lady reviewed by, 241, 331
“On Some Omissions of Introspective Psychology” (William James), 235
Order of Merit, 324
Osmond, Gilbert (char.), 124–25, 149, 151, 174–75, 196, 207, 222, 268, 315–16
declaration by, 157–59, 218, 272, 329
as exemplary expatriate, 124, 163
Isabel Archer’s fascination with, 134–37, 155–59, 162–64, 276, 311, 328, 329
Isabel Archer’s marriage to, 136, 159–61, 164, 166, 214, 221, 222–38, 271–77, 303–4
limitations placed on Isabel Archer by, 162–64, 225, 230–31, 232–33, 234, 238, 269, 273, 274–75, 313, 325, 326
Lord Warburton–Pansy Osmond courtship sought by, 229, 230, 237, 271–72, 274
Madame Merle’s relationship with, 139–40, 224, 227, 228, 268, 272–77, 303–4
mutual dislike of Ralph Touchett and, 126, 134, 156, 162–63, 164, 223, 228, 238, 316
as nonentity, 163
objections to, 136, 155–56, 162–64, 223
taste as defining characteristic of, 133–39, 156–57, 163–64, 225–26, 233, 238, 273
Osmond, Pansy (char.), 124, 133, 134, 135, 158, 159, 196, 218, 222–24, 228–29, 278–79, 314, 315–16
identity of mother of, 275–77
Isabel Archer’s promise to, 279, 313, 333
Othello (Shakespeare), 194
Oxford, 180
Oxford University, 50, 54
“Ozymandias” (Shelley), 153
Pakenham, General, 45
Palazzo Antici-Mattei, 225–26
Palazzo Barbaro, 169, 182, 188
Palazzo Pitti, 121
Paradise Lost (Milton), xix, 277, 326
Paris, 27, 41, 91, 121, 125, 161, 170, 189, 262, 305
Americans resident in, 146, 165–66, 169
artists in, 147
HJ in, 28, 34, 37, 42, 78, 92, 165, 197, 258
HJ’s decision to depart from, 95–97
Ivan Turgenev in, 38–40
Paris Commune, 197–98
Parkman, Francis, 53
Parsifal, 94
Pater, Walter, 138
Pemble, John, 146
Pensione Wildner, 168
Pepino, 92–93
Père Goriot (Balzac), 52, 98
Perry, Oliver Hazard, 17
Perry, Thomas Sergeant, 17, 20
HJ’s letters to, 27, 31
Persse, Jocelyn, 89
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 48
Phineas Finn (Trollope), 220
Picture of Dorian Grey, The (Wilde), 200
Pierce, Franklin, 32
Pinero, Arthur Wing, 289
Pinker, J. B., 323
New York Edition and, xii–xiv, xvi, xxii, 47, 307–8
plot:
HJ’s view of, 25, 40, 66, 244, 245
modernist suspicion of, 248–49
in Victorian novels, 25
Pluralistic Universe, A (William James), 320
Plymouth, 45
Poe, Edgar Allan, 29
“Political Somnambulism” (Seeley), 210
Ponte Vecchio, 121
Porta Romano, 121–22
Portrait of a Lady (Homer), 191
Portrait of a Lady, The (Henry James), xx, 1, 34, 57, 77, 80, 93, 98, 101, 138, 173, 198, 260, 267, 284
ambition behind, 43
American life and identity in, 53–54
artists absent in, 148–49
as breakthrough moment in HJ’s style, 235–36
as bridge between British and American novels, xvi–xvii
as bridge between Victorian and modernist novels, xvi–xvii, xviii, 218, 220–21, 237–38, 300, 330
categorical imperative in, 314–15
characterization in, 66, 295
chronology of, 232–38
concurrent serial publication of, 44, 211–13
consciousness depicted in, 295
Constance Fenimore Woolson on, 175, 243, 284
early version of, 43, 72
Edith Wharton’s echoes of, 207
ending of, xvi, 6, 65, 242, 330–34
expatriates as parasites in, 124–25
Florence as site for writing of, 121, 128
form of, 66
George Eliot’s influence on, xxiv, 69–70
HJ’s preface to, xvi, xxiii–xxiv, 4–5, 75, 116, 171, 235, 334
HJ’s proofreading of book edition, 240–41
HJ’s reputation and, 131, 169, 284–85
in medias res opening of, 7
language of architecture in, 50–51
Library of America edition of, xix
loss of innocence in, 277–78
march of action in, 294
Minny Temple and, 27, 46–50
notes for, 293
plot in, 273–77
publication in book form of, 239–41, 280, 305, 318
reviews of, 7–8, 241–43
revisions of, xv, xvi, xix, xxiii, 8, 110, 111, 132, 136, 155–59, 237–38, 240–41, 309–17, 327–28, 330–32
Rome in, 152
sales of, 239–40
scenery in, 142
scene shift to Italy in, 124
sense of leisure in, 5–6
sequel to, 333
serialization of, xviii, xix, 24, 49, 60, 71, 101, 103, 104, 130, 166, 173, 174, 208–15, 217–21, 257
sexuality in, xvi, 237–38, 277, 326–30, 333
style of, 7–8
time gaps in, 159–61, 222–23
two-character scenes in, 106
Villa Castellani in, 123, 124
writing of, xvii, xviii, xxiv, 4, 45, 92, 103–4, 166, 208, 214, 264, 267, 297
see also specific characters
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 10
Posillipo, 92, 94
Powers, Hiram, 126, 149
pragmatism, 32, 105, 320
Pragmatism (William James), 320
Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 153
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 5
Principles of Psychology, The (William James), 102, 115–16, 234–35
Private Life of Henry James, A (Gordon), 29, 315
Problem in Greek Ethics, A (Symonds), 84, 170
Problem in Modern Ethics, A (Symonds), 84, 170
“Professions for Women” (Woolf), 253
progressive humanism, 209
proposal scenes, 72–76
Protestants, in Rome, 146
Proust, Marcel, 231, 251, 330
publishing:
British, 252–53
in U.S. vs. UK, 239–41
Quarterly Review, 244
Queensberry, Marquess of, 83
Radcliffe, Anne, 112
Radcliffe College, 282
“Realism Wars,” 246
realist fiction, 25–26, 314
Red and the Black, The (Stendahl), 98
Reef, The (Wharton), 330
Reform Club, 79, 102, 296
regionalism, 246
Rhode Island, 19
Rhode Island Board of Enrolment, 19
Richardson, H. H., 258
Risorgimento, 150
Robinson, Hyacinth (char.), 98, 100
“Rodman the Keeper” (Woolson), 129
romances, 36, 69
“Roman Fever” (Wharton), 206
Rome, xviii, 59, 88, 119, 134, 141, 155, 159
artists in, 147
Carnival in, 152–53
Constance Fenimore Woolson’s burial in, 183, 188
as crossroads, 142–43
expatriates in, 138, 142, 145, 149–50, 166, 167, 226, 319
HJ in, 127, 141–42, 143–44, 151–54, 166, 172, 173, 175, 297
HJ’s imprint for later visitors on, 143–44
Isabel Archer in, 141–43, 149, 150, 174, 222, 225–26, 269–70, 271, 312, 325, 327–34
Michael Gorra in, 152, 188
Nathaniel Hawthorne in, 143, 145, 147, 152, 205
Protestant Cemetery in, 188, 205
Romola (Eliot), 57–58
Roosevelt, Theodore, 79
Rose, Charles, 47–50
Rose, Charlotte Temple, 49
Rose, Sir John, 49
Rosebery, Lord, 104, 165
Rosier, Edward (char.), 125, 222–25, 228–29, 232, 274
Russia, 38, 315
Ruth (Gaskell), 195
Rye, xii, xxi, xxiv, 79, 81, 88, 90, 177, 296, 298, 309, 320, 322
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 20
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 18
St. James’s Theater, 289–91
Samoa, 286
Sand, George, 192, 198
San Diego, Calif., 308
San Francisco earthquake, xxii
San Remo, 166
Sargent, John Singer, xx, 100, 125, 146, 169–71, 224, 289, 322, 334
Savannah, Ga., xx
Scandinavia, theater in, 288
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), xx, 36
Scenes of Clerical Life (Eliot), 59
Schubert, Franz, 111
Scott, Sir Walter, 196, 240
Scribner, xvi, xxiii, 241, 307–8, 318–19
Scribner’s, 43, 104
Scudder, Horace, 241–42
Second Mrs. Tanqueray (Pinero), 289
Secret Agent, The (Conrad), 253
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 187
Seeley, J. R., 210
“Self-Reliance” (Emerson), 52, 114–15, 252
sentimental fiction, 25
Serao, Matilde, 90
sexuality:
in Anglo-American literature, 253
in The Awkward Age, 90, 204, 294
in The Bostonians, 282
in French novels, 193–96, 201–4, 244, 252, 253
in HJ’s works, 90, 196, 199, 303–4
in literature, 90, 198–203
in The Portrait of a Lady, xvi, 234–36, 237–38, 277, 326–30, 333
Shakespeare, William, 194, 269, 288
Shaw, George Bernard, 288, 290, 292
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 178
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 153, 178, 188, 226
Sicily, 226
Sidney, Sir Philip, 74
Siena, 94, 126
“Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (Eliot), 66–67
Silsbee (sea captain), 178
slavery, 251
Son of the Soil, A (Oliphant), 214
Sons and Lovers, 253
Spectator, 220, 231, 242
Spencer, James, 61
Sportsman’s Sketches (Turgenev), 39, 315
Stabilimento Chitarin, 168
Stackpole, Henrietta (char.), 52–54, 66, 70, 72, 100, 105–7, 131, 135, 136, 141, 220–21, 227, 268, 269, 270, 275, 313, 314, 325
Stanford University, xxii
Stendahl, 98
Stephen, James Fitzjames, 193–94
Stephen, Leslie Kenneth, 194
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 100, 245, 248, 252, 286
Stockton, Frank, 243
Stoddard, Elizabeth, 25
Stonehenge, 176
Story, William Wetmore, 125, 142, 146–47, 149–50, 188, 317
“Story of a Year, The” (Henry James), 23
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 25, 209
stream of consciousness, 230, 234–36
Strether, Lambert (char.), 91, 180, 303–5
Strindberg, August, 288
Strutt, Arthur, 147
Sturgis, Howard, 50, 298
Sturgis, Russell, 49–50
sublime, Kantian, 159
Sumner, Charles, 148
Swedenborg, Emmanuel, 14
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 197
Switzerland, 28, 161, 208
Symonds, John Addington, 83–86, 169–70, 181, 188
Syracuse, N.Y., 14
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens), 216
Taylor, Bayard, 146
Temple, Catherine James, 49
Temple, Mary (Minny), 21–22, 108, 123, 315, 321
illness and death of, 27–29, 30, 46, 47, 260, 264
as original of Isabel Archer, 27, 46–50
Temple, Robert, 49
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy), 195
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 63, 99, 215, 234, 242, 244, 245, 247
theater:
in France, 287
HJ and, 170, 181, 286–92, 293, 294
as popular art, 288
in Scandinavia, 288
Time and Tide, 88
Tintoretto, 64, 137, 182
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 53, 307
Todorov, Tzvetan, 86, 159, 184
Tóibín, Colm, 91
Tolstoy, Leo, 113, 160, 252, 271, 303, 332
Torquay, 296
To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 236
Touchett, Daniel (char.), 3–4, 5–6, 49–50, 70, 73–74, 124, 125, 325
death of, 107–9, 111–12, 124, 134, 218, 241, 316–17
Touchett, Mrs. (char.), 4, 7–9, 46, 51–53, 69, 71, 73, 111, 114, 125, 134, 136, 159, 227, 260, 314
Touchett, Ralph (char.), 4, 6, 9–10, 46, 48, 50–51, 54, 70, 71, 107–8, 135, 136, 141, 142, 214, 221, 230, 321
death and funeral of, 324–26, 333
illness of, 3, 19, 27–28, 88, 124, 162, 166, 226–27, 238, 274–75, 313, 329
Isabel Archer as means to fulfill desires of, 67, 110–11, 162–64, 315–17
Isabel Archer’s inheritance and, 109–11, 162, 279, 316–17
lack of occupation of, 19, 78, 124
mutual dislike between Gilbert Osmond and, 134, 136, 156, 162–63, 164, 223, 228, 238, 316
Townsend, Morris (char.), 70
transcendentalism, 17, 265
“Transcendentalist, The” (Emerson), 114
Treacherous Years, The (Edel), 289
Treasure Island (Stevenson), 245, 248
Trilling, Lionel, 98
Trollope, Anthony, 61, 160, 219–20, 234, 245, 246
death of, 264, 267
HJ’s critique of, 265
Turgenev, Ivan, 38–39, 68, 91, 92, 96, 165, 197–98, 250, 315
characters of, xxiv, 39–40, 248
death of, 200, 249, 264
HJ on, 58, 200, 265–66
Turin, 42
Turner, J. M. W., 102
Twain, Mark, xix, 33, 36, 143, 210, 239
Tweed, William Marcy “Boss,” 34
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 25
Under Western Eyes (Conrad), 218
Union College, 14
United States, 304
business worshipped in, 15, 34
changes in, 306–7
divorce in, 273
estrangement of youth from, 31
exceptionalism of, 36, 114–15, 278
Gilded Age of, 33–34, 72, 251, 259, 306
history of, 36
HJ on life and identity of, 31, 32, 33, 34–37, 41–42, 53–54
HJ’s returns to, xv, xvii, 34, 80, 257–64, 305–8, 320–21
HJ’s works pirated in, 42
isolation of, 32
James family isolated from, 15–16
as novelists’ subject, 24
novel of manners in, 26
optimism in, 315
past and future in, 149–50
plutocracy of, 306
pragmatism in, 32
relationship of Europe to, 114–15, 126, 278, 305
writing about, 129
Urban VII, Pope, 144–45
utilitarianism, 315
Valéry, Paul, 88
Vanderbilt, Consuelo, 109
vaporettos, 167
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 250–51
Varieties of Religious Experience, The (William James), 13, 260, 320
Venetian Life (Howells), 23
Venice, 23, 60, 84, 85, 91, 126, 141
The Aspern Papers set in, 178–79
Constance Fenimore Woolson in, 181–82, 185
expatriates in, 167, 168–69
HJ in, xviii, xxiv, 28, 78, 127, 166–73, 174, 183–85, 187, 208, 214, 258
Michael Gorra in, 188
tourism in, 167, 188
The Wings of the Dove set in, 187
Verver, Maggie (char.), 90, 109, 237, 301–5, 327, 330
Viardot, Pauline, 39
Victoria, Crown-Princess of Prussia, 128
Victoria, Queen of England, 128, 194
Victorian novels:
business of, 203
decline of, 245–46
HJ’s critique of, 64, 74, 265
limits on autonomy in, 278
as “loose baggy monsters,” 64
marriage plots in, 68–69
multiple plots in, 25, 63–64, 215–17
The Portrait of a Lady and, xvi–xvii, xviii, 140
self-censorship in, 74, 157
serialization of, 208–21
sexuality in, 195–96
three-volume, 240, 241, 252–53
Villa Brichieri-Colombi, 176–78
Villa Castellani, 122–24
Villette (Brontë), 131, 241
Virgil, 231
Virginian, The (Wister), 148
Vizetelly, Henry, 203, 252
Wagner, Cosima, 92–93
Wagner, Richard, 44, 92–94, 95, 130
Walpole, Hugh, 89, 298
Walsh, Catherine, 33
Warburton, Lord (char.), 3–4, 6–7, 10, 51, 133, 142–43, 148, 155–56, 163, 164, 268, 325–26, 328
Isabel Archer’s rejection of, 66, 70–76, 106–7, 113, 136, 156–57, 218, 228, 329
Pansy Osmond courted by, 226–30, 274
War of 1812, 17
Washington, D.C., 40, 85, 212, 259, 290, 323
Weisbuch, Robert, 35
Wells, H. G., xxii, 289
Westminster Review, 58
Wharton, Edith, 36, 79, 91, 139, 149, 206–7, 241, 307, 330
sales of, xii
Whistler, James McNeill, 146
Whitchurch-on-Thames, 48
White Mountains, 22, 308, 321
Whitman, Walt, 19, 323
Wilde, Oscar, 200, 279, 297
HJ’s dislike of, 85, 290
homosexuality of, 78, 83, 85, 290, 299
as playwright, 288, 290, 291–92
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Prussia, 128
Wilson, Woodrow, 323
Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame), 49
Wisconsin, 27, 32
Wister, Owen, 148
Wister, Sara Butler, 148
Wolseley, Sir Garnet, 61
women, condition of, 72, 253
Woolf, Virginia, xvi, 88, 194, 231, 235–36, 249, 253, 302, 321
Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 94, 128–32, 174–88, 315
death of, 182–86, 266
depression of, 180, 182–83, 186
on The Portrait of a Lady, 175, 243, 284
Wordsworth, William, 74, 153
World War I, 322–24
Zhukovsky, Paul, 44, 78, 91–96, 101, 130, 131, 198
Zola, Émile, 204, 246, 250–53, 265, 271
at Gustave Flaubert’s cénacle, 39, 96, 197, 199
HJ’s opinion of, 90, 198, 201–3
naturalism and, 26, 200, 249, 283
translation of, 203, 304