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, Colonel, 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
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