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Henry James(1843-1916)

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Henry James
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Henry James was born 15 April 1843, to a wealthy family. He was born in New York, New York USA. His parents were Henry James Sr. and Mary Robertson Walsh; He had one brother William James (January 11 1842-August 26 1910) and one sister Alice James. When Henry James was a young boy he would enjoy reading the classics of English, American, German, French, and Russian literature. Also when he was a kid he and his family would travel back and forth to England and the United States of America. Henry James educated in New York City, London, Paris and Geneva.

He tried to strive for a higher education then he decided it was not for him and writing was his calling in life. (When Henry James was at the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading literature to studying law). When Henry James hit the age of 21 he decided to write his first novel, A Tragedy of error. From that point on he started to write. He went on to write 23 more novels in his lifetime (this is a short list of the book's he wrote the Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Portrait of a Lady, The American, Washington Square, The Bostonians, and The Wings of the Dove). Henry James also was an extraordinarily productive on top of all of his novels he wrote he published articles an, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays (one of them being Guy Domville), some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success. Henry James also wrote a whole lot of short stories for either the local news or just for fun. He often wrote for the New York tribune. Henry James was a key stone writer of his time (He was one of the foremost literary figures of his time, leaving us an enormous body of novels, 'tales' (short stories), literary and art criticism, autobiography and travel writing). Throughout his life he was in love with his cousin, Mary Temple, but later in life while he was in London he became homosexual, the young man he started to wright was at the age of 27 and Henry James was at the age of 56. He also wrote another guy named, Howard Sturgis. They started to write back and forth and they started to have more emotion in the letters. He also started to write a woman named Lucy Clifford; But Henry James never got married in his lifetime. Henry James brother William James died when Henry James was at the age of 67; Henry James had a stroke on Dec 2nd of 1915. His health started to decline from then. He died in London in Feb. 28th of 1916. When he died he was not only a citizen for the United States of America but also a British subject. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and his ashes are interred at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BornApril 15, 1843
DiedFebruary 28, 1916(72)
BornApril 15, 1843
DiedFebruary 28, 1916(72)
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Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, and Onata Aprile in What Maisie Knew (2012)
What Maisie Knew
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  • 2012
The Innocents (1961)
The Innocents
7.8
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  • 1961
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
The Wings of the Dove
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  • 1997
Affairs of the Heart
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  • The Beast
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  • The Ambassadors
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  • The Beast in the Jungle
  • The Turn of the Screw
  • Robert Murray in The Turn of the Screw (2021)
    The Turn of the Screw
  • Owen Wingrave (2020)
    Owen Wingrave
  • Cineficción Radio (2019)
    Cineficción Radio
  • The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
    The Haunting of Bly Manor
  • Turn of the Screw (2020)
    Turn of the Screw
  • Adrianna Forbes-Dorant, Katherine Broderick, and Sophie Bevan in The Turn of the Screw (2020)
    The Turn of the Screw
  • The Turn of the Screw (2020)
    The Turn of the Screw
  • Brooklynn Prince in The Turning (2020)
    The Turning
  • Taersung Kim and Vera Bitter in Owen Wingrave (2020)
    Owen Wingrave
  • Benjamin Sattlecker, Qi Wang, and Sophie Negoita in Owen Wingrave (2020)
    Owen Wingrave
  • Nicolas Duvauchelle and Sara Giraudeau in Spellbound (2019)
    Spellbound
  • The Beast in the Jungle (2019)
    The Beast in the Jungle
  • Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in The Aspern Papers (2018)
    The Aspern Papers
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    • April 15, 1843
    • New York City, New York, USA
    • February 28, 1916
    • London, England, UK(undisclosed)
    • (Sibling)
  • Other works
    Book: "The Other House".
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    • 8 Print Biographies
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    Pictured on an 89¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued 31 July 2016. On the day of issue, 89¢ was the rate for 3 ounces.
  • Quotes
    To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticised thing and to make it one's own.

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