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Henry James Interviews and Recollections Other Interviews and Recollections volumes available on BRENDAN BEHAN (two volumes) edited by E. H. Mikhail DICKENS (two volumes) edited by Philip Collins KIPLING (two volumes) edited by Harold Orel D. H. LAWRENCE (two volumes) editedbyNormanPage KARL MARX edited by David McLellan TENNYSON edited by Norman Page THACKERAY (two volumes) edited by Philip Collins H. G. WELLS edited by]. R. Hammond Further titles in preparation Also by Norman Page The Language of Jane Austen Speech in the English Novel Thomas Hardy E. M. Forster's Posthumous Fiction Wilkie Collins: The Critical Heritage (editor) Thomas Hardy: The Writer and his Background (editor) Dickens: Hard Times, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend (Casebook) (editor) The Language of Literature (Casebook) (editor) D. H. Lawrence: Interviews and Recollections (editor) Tennyson: Interviews and Recollections (editor) Nabokov: The Critical Heritage (editor) A. E. Housman: A Critical Biography A Dickens Companion A Kipling Companion Thomas Hardy Annual (editor) HENRY JAMES Interviews and Recollections Edited by Norman Page M MACMILLAN Selection and editorial matter© Norman Page 1984 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1984 978-0-333-30946-9 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission First published 1984 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basings toke Companies and representatives throughout the world Filmset by Vantage Photosetting Co Ltd Eastleigh and London British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Henry James: interviews and recollections. 1. James, Henry, 1843-1916 Criticism and interpretation I. Page, Norman 813' .4 PS2124 ISBN 978-1-349-17468-3 ISBN 978-1-349-17466-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-17466-9 Contents Acknowledgements Vlll Introduction XI A Henry James Chronology XIX INTERVIEWS AND RECOLLECTIONS PART I IMPRESSIONS 'Pleasure under Difficulties' Alice james 3 'A Very Earnest Fellow' William Dean Howells 4 'The American James' William Dean Howells 5 First Meeting Edmund Gosse 7 A Child's View of Henry James Compton Mackenzie 10 'The Demoralisation of English Society' Alice James 12 'Remarkably Unremarkable' W. Graham Robertson 14 'Divinely Interesting' William Dean Howells 15 A Non-literary Intimacy Ford Madox Ford 16 James's Friendships Hugh Walpole 22 James and 'the Conformities' Edith Wharton 26 'The Strange Alchemy of his Genius' Ella Hepworth Dixon 28 'Carrying Lucidity to Dazzling Point' Edward Marsh 31 'Great Individuality' Arnold Bennett 34 PART II PLACES AND PEOPLE James in Paris William Rothenstein 39 James in Italy Mrs Humphry Ward 39 America Revisited Elizabeth jordan 43 A Weekend in Cambridge Geoffrey Keynes 45 James on Zola Henry Hyndman 50 On Gissing and Meredith Sydney Water/ow 51 VI CONTENTS James on Ellen Terry Edmund Gosse 53 James and Belloc: an Encounter G. K. Chesterton 54 James on Max Beerbohm Edmund Gosse 57 PART III OCCASIONS The American is Staged Alice James 61 The First Night of Guy Domville H. G. Wells 63 'An Exhibition of Brutality' F. Anstey 66 Guy Domville: the Aftermath Edmund Gosse 69 A Visit to Miss Pater RichardJ ennings 71 The Genesis of The Turn of the Screw E. F. Benson 72 'Henry James at Dinner' Elizabeth Jordan 74 James Has his HairCut J. M. Barrie 76 James Wishes He Were Popular Alfred Sutro 77 James at a Cricket Match Reginald Blomfield 78 PART IV LIFE AT RYE 'The Mayor-Elect of Rye' Edmund Gosse 83 James at Home Mrs]. T. Fields 85 A Visit to Lamb House (January 1900) A. C. Benson 87 'Genial Nebulosity' E. F. Benson 89 'I Have Lost Touch with my Own People' Hamlin Garland 91 James at Work Theodora Bosanquet 95 James Orders Marmalade Compton Mackenzie 1O S PART V CONVERSATION 'Wholly Individual' E. F. Benson 111 'Always the Lion' C. Lewis Hind 113 'An Extraordinary Candour' Elizabeth Jordan 114 James on Intolerance Raymond Blathwayt 115 James Asks the Way Edith Wharton 117 Talking like a Book G. W. E. Russell 119 Meetings with James (1901-15) A. C. Benson 120 'A Kind of Mutual Agony' Muriel Draper 125 'Magnifying the Minute' Desmond MacCarthy 128 James Discourses 'in the Public Street' Virginia Woolf 133 James Addresses the Young Hugh Walpole 134 James on Tennyson, Shakespeare and George Sand John Bailey 135 CONTENTS Vll 'As If He Were Reading Proof' W. L. Phelps 136 'In Great Form' Max Beerbohm 139 James Reads Poetry Edith Wharton 140 PART VI THE WAR AND THE END 'The Angina Pectoris ... Unrelenting' Edmund Gosse 145 James and England Logan Pearsall Smith 145 'Uncontrollable Anger' Mrs Belloc Lowndes 150 'Transfigured' Edmund Gosse 151 'A Beau Geste' Mrs Humphry Ward 153 The Order of Merit James S. Bain 154 James's Funeral Edmund Gosse 155 Index 156 Acknowledgements The editor and publishers wish to thank the following who have kindly given permission for the use of copyright material: George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd, for the extract from Looking Down the Years by Raymond Blathwayt. Constable & Co. Ltd, for the extract from Max by David Cecil. Dodd, Mead & Co. Inc., for the extract from The Diary of Alice James, edited by Leon Edel. Faber & Faber Ltd, for the extract from Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain, by H. G. Wells. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, for the extracts from Time Was by W. Graham Robertson, and A Number of People by Edward Marsh. David Higham Associates Ltd, on behalf of the Literary Estate of Ford Madox Ford, for the extract from Thus to Revisit: Some Reminiscences. The Hogarth Press Ltd, on behalf of the Literary Estate of Theodora Bosanquet, for the extract from Henry James at Work, and the Literary Estate of Virginia Woolf, for the extract from The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. 1: 1888-1912, edited by Nigel Nicolson. Mrs Isobel Garland Lord and Mrs Constance Garland Doyle, for the extract from Roadside Meetings by the late Hamlin Garland. The MacNaughton Lowe Representation, for the extract from 'Henry James: a Reminiscence' by Hugh Walpole. The Mark Twain Quarterly, for the extract from the article 'Henry James at Dinner' by Elizabeth Jordan (1943). John Murray (Publishers) Ltd, for the extract from John Bailey, 1864-1931: Letters and Diaries. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix The Society of Authors, as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Sir Compton Mackenzie, for the extract from 'Henry James' in Life and Letters Today. A. P. Watt Ltd, on behalf of the Executors of the Estate of E. F. Benson, for the extracts from As We Were and Final Edition, and on behalf of Miss D. E. Collins, for the extract from Autobiography by G. K. Chesterton. Every effort has been made to trace all the copyright-holders but if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangement at the first opportunity.

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