Henry James: Interviews and Recollections

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Pleasure under Difficulties....Pages 3-4
A Very Earnest Fellow....Pages 4-5
The American James....Pages 5-7
First Meeting....Pages 7-10
A Child’s View of Henry James....Pages 10-12
The Demoralisation of English Society....Pages 12-13
Remarkably Unremarkable....Pages 14-15
Divinely Interesting....Pages 15-16
A Non-literary Intimacy....Pages 16-22
James’s Friendships....Pages 22-26
James and ‘the Conformities’....Pages 26-27
The Strange Alchemy of his Genius....Pages 28-30
Carrying Lucidity to Dazzling Point....Pages 31-34
Great Individuality....Pages 34-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
James in Paris....Pages 39-39
James in Italy....Pages 39-42
America Revisited....Pages 43-45
A Weekend in Cambridge....Pages 45-50
James on Zola....Pages 50-51
On Gissing and Meredith....Pages 51-53
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
James on Ellen Terry....Pages 53-54
James and Belloc: an Encounter....Pages 54-57
James on Max Beerbohm....Pages 57-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
The American is Staged....Pages 61-63
The First Night of Guy Domville....Pages 63-66
An Exhibition of Brutality....Pages 66-68
Guy Domville: the Aftermath....Pages 69-71
A Visit to Miss Pater....Pages 71-72
The Genesis of The Turn of the Screw....Pages 72-74
Henry James at Dinner....Pages 74-76
James Has his Hair Cut....Pages 76-77
James Wishes He Were Popular....Pages 77-78
James at a Cricket Match....Pages 78-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
The Mayor-Elect of Rye....Pages 83-85
James at Home....Pages 85-87
A Visit to Lamb House (January 1900)....Pages 87-89
Genial Nebulosity....Pages 89-91
I Have Lost Touch with my Own People....Pages 91-95
James at Work....Pages 95-105
James Orders Marmalade....Pages 105-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Wholly Individual....Pages 111-113
Always the Lion....Pages 113-114
An Extraordinary Candour....Pages 114-115
James on Intolerance....Pages 115-116
James Asks the Way....Pages 117-119
Talking like a Book....Pages 119-120
Meetings with James (1901–15)....Pages 120-125
A Kind of Mutual Agony....Pages 125-128
Magnifying the Minute....Pages 128-132
James Discourses ‘in the Public Street’....Pages 133-133
James Addresses the Young....Pages 134-134
James on Tennyson, Shakespeare and George Sand....Pages 135-136
As If He Were Reading Proof....Pages 136-138
In Great Form....Pages 139-139
James Reads Poetry....Pages 140-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
The Angina Pectoris … Unrelenting....Pages 145-145
James and England....Pages 145-150
Uncontrollable Anger....Pages 150-151
Transfigured....Pages 151-153
A Beau Geste....Pages 153-154
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
The Order of Merit....Pages 154-155
James’s Funeral....Pages 155-155
Back Matter....Pages 156-158