A private life of Henry James : two women and his art

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A private life of Henry James : two women and his art

Lyndall Gordon

W.W. Norton, 1999, c1998

1st American ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-469) and index

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Henry James's cousin, Minny Temple, was the "heroine" of his youth in New England; he saw her as a free spirit, "a plant of pure American growth". The writer Constance Fenimore Woolson was a friend of his middle years in Europe, a solitary, mature woman who pursued her ambitions with an intensity that matched his own. Both had an extraordinary impact on James, even (perhaps especially) in the wakes of their premature deaths.

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