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"It has been a melancholy task to read this book; and it is a still more melancholy one to write about it." Thus opens the revie...

In his review of Louisa May Alcott 's novel Eight Cousins in The Nation for October 14, 1875, Henry James ultimately recommends the...

The Story of a Play by William Dean Howells received rave reviews from the author's friend Henry James , who called it "admira...

On June 3, 1875, the Nation published a review by Henry James of the Baltimore-born editor and author George Henry Calvert . Calvert was...

"I am working very hard at my story here, which takes shape very slowly and reluctantly," William Dean Howells wrote to Henry Jam...

It had been 25 years to the month since Henry James had placed his feet on the soil of his native country. Sailing into New York Harbor on ...

She was born Elizabeth Drew Barstow in Massachusetts on May 6, 1823, but she later became Mrs. Richard Henry Stoddard in 1852 and thereaft...

Though, for the majority of his life, he was a British subject, it was in New York City that Henry James was born on April 15, 1843. He sp...