Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and His Literary Circle, 1895-1915 - Hardcover

Seymour, Miranda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395511739 ISBN 13: 9780395511732

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1989

Synopsis

Illustrated. Includes bibliography and index.

About this title

About the Author:

Miranda Seymour, author of the award-winning In My Father's House has written many acclaimed novels and biographies, including lives of Mary Shelley, Robert Graves, Ottoline Morrell and Helle Nice, the Bugatti Queen.

From Publishers Weekly:

Henry James left London in 1897 to spend the last two decades of his life in the southeastern corner of England. His neighbors in East Sussex included H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad. In her intriguing portrait gallery, British author Seymour aims to cut through "the mass of evasions . . . and misrepresentations" about their relationships to which James contributed. She finds that James was cruelly patronizing to protege Wells and to Conrad; that he was annoyed by Ford, an incorrigible romancer; that he envied his rich friend Edith Wharton for her wide readership; that he snubbed Cora Taylor, Crane's lover, after she fled the U.S. when her railway-conductor husband was found guilty of murder. Seymour, a descendant of James's close friend, the novelist Howard Sturgis, records how James's critiques of fellow writers often amounted to annihilation. She chronicles his infatuations with handsome young men, including sculptor Hendrik Andersen and poet Rupert Brooke. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0395511739
• ISBN 13: 9780395511732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 327