• Henry James by Lyndall Gordon
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Henry James

His Women and His Art
  • Author
    • Lyndall Gordon
£14.99
£14.99
James's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson ended in 1894 when he tried to drown a boatload of her dresses in the Venetian lagoon; she had fallen to her death three months before. It was an elusive friendship that echoed his mysterious relationship with Minny Temple who had died twenty years earlier. From their graves, these two women haunted his imagination and his fiction, inspiring the creation of his heroines.
  • Published: Nov 01 2012
  • Pages: 544
  • 129 x 200mm
  • ISBN: 9781844088928
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Press Reviews

  • Claire Tomalin

    Independent on Sunday
    A rich book in which it is a pleasure to become absorbed

  • Philip Horne

    Guardian
    Wonderfully full-blooded . . . A brilliant idea . . . superbly enjoyable material, much of it unfamiliar, all of it stimulating

  • Victoria Glendinning

    Daily Telegraph
    Compelling . . . not an addition to the pile of "chronicle" biographies of Henry James . . . [The opening] is unforgettable, like a scene from a film . . . [This book] combines scholarly rigour with a nice line in nineteenth-century gothic

  • Kathryn Hughes

    Literary Review
    Gordon's approach to biography is imaginative and risky . . . The result is a magnificent, important book, which points the way forward for the whole biographical genre

  • Claire Tomalin

    Independent on Sunday
    'A rich book in which it is a pleasure to become absorbed'

  • Philip Horne

    Guardian
    'Wonderfully full-blooded . . . A brilliant idea . . . superbly enjoyable material, much of it unfamiliar, all of it stimulating'

  • Victoria Glendinning

    Daily Telegraph
    'Compelling . . . not an addition to the pile of "chronicle" biographies of Henry James . . . [The opening] is unforgettable, like a scene from a film . . . [This book] combines scholarly rigour with a nice line in nineteenth-century gothic'

  • Kathryn Hughes

    Literary Review
    'Gordon's approach to biography is imaginative and risky . . . The result is a magnificent, important book, which points the way forward for the whole biographical genre'