Portrait of A Novel (43 page)

75—“
Who was she
”: P, 304.

76—“
Do you know
. . . lord!
”: P, 303.

CHAPTER 7: AN UNMARRIED MAN

77—
some representative titles
: Van Wyck Brooks,
The Pilgrimage of Henry James
(1925); Marius Bewley,
The Complex Fate: Hawthorne, Henry James, and Some Other American Writers
(1952); Leon Edel,
Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870–1881
(1962).

78—
That emphasis suited
: See Michael Anesko,
Monopoli
z
ing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012).

78—“
a smile
”: CTW2, 338–40.

78—“
dim sense
”: Fred Kaplan,
Henry James: The Imagination of Genius
(New York: Morrow, 1992), 300.

78—“
a most tender
”
. . .
“
friendship
”: To Alice James, 24 May 1876.

78—“
strange
”
. . .
“
oddity
”: LFL, 471.

78—“
verbal passion
”: Kaplan, 300.

79—“
undersized
. . . men
”: Theodore Roosevelt, “What Americanism Means.” Quoted in Edmund Morris,
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
(New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979), 480.

79—“
separate, not unworkable
”: Philip Larkin, “The Importance of Elsewhere” (1955).

79—“
the deepest thing
”: To W. Morton Fullerton, 2 October 1900.

80—“
Londonized
”: To Charles Eliot Norton, 17 November 1878.

80—“
Mrs. James
”: To William James, 1 May 1878.

80—“
as if it were
”: To William James, 23 June 1878.

80—“
of all the men
”: E. S. Nadal, “Personal Recollections of Henry James,”
Scribner’s Maga
z
ine
, July 1920, 94.

81—“
This last report
”: To Mary James, 31 October 1880.

81—“
generally felt
. . .
all to myself
”: To Grace Norton, 7 November 1880.

82—“
the gospel
”: CS2, 865.

82—“
most objectionable
”: CS2, 886.

83—“
poor S.’s wife
”: N, 25.

83—“
the innermost
”
. . .
“
covert
”: To Edmund Gosse. 9 June 1884.

83—“
somdomite
”
[sic] . . .
“
vicious
”: See Graham Robb’s
Strangers
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), an exemplary synthesis of research in the field, albeit one that concentrates on the lives and situations of the articulate and the intellectual. Its accounts of Symonds and Wilde are especially useful.

84—“
band of the emulous
”: To Edmund Gosse, 7 January 1898.

84—“
mild cultured man
”: To William James, 28 February 1877.

85—“
who love
”: To J. A. Symonds, 22 February 1884.

85—“
unclean beast
”: E3, 31.

85—“
He was never
”: To Edmund Gosse, 8 April 1895.

85—“
a position in society
”: Nadal, 90.

85—“
being what I am
”
. . .
“
second best
”:
The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds
, ed. Phyllis Grosskurth (New York: Random House, 1984), 184–85.

86—“
She made
”: P, 782.

86—“
always based
”: Tzvetan Todorov, “The Secret of Narrative,” in
The Poetics of Prose
(1971), trans. Richard Howard (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977), 145. Both this essay and its companion piece in the same volume, “The Ghosts of Henry James,” are among the most suggestive things ever written about James’s work.

87—“
name for everything
”: Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” (1919). The standard translation is by James Strachey.

88—“
loved his friends
”: Theodora Bosanquet,
Henry James at Work
(1924; repr., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006, ed. Lyall H. Powers), 48.

89—“
darlingest Hugh!
”: E5, 409.

89—“
I can’t!
”: See the introduction to Leon Edel,
Henry James Letters
, vol. 4, 1895–1916 (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1984), xix. Edel presents the story as a form of urban legend, with Walpole telling it to Somerset Maugham, who told it to everyone.

89—“
a horror
”
. . .
“
physical love
”: Leon Edel,
Henry James: A Life
(New York: Harper & Row, 1985), 724–25.

89—
biographer Sheldon Novick
: See his
Henry James: The Young Master
(New York: Random House, 1996), 109–10.

89—
L’initation première
: N, 238.

89—“
regret a single
”: To Hugh Walpole, 21 August 1913. L4 680.

90—“
supposed that he was
”
. . .
“
visible the face
”: Gosse,
Aspects and Impressions
, 42–43.

91—“
oasis
”
. . .
“
distingué
”: To William James, 25 April 1876. The novelist always referred to his friend by the French version of his family name—Joukowsky. On their relations, see, in addition to Novick, Peter Brooks’s
Henry James Goes to Paris
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).

91—“
extreme purity
”
. . .
“
him
”: To Alice James, 24 May 1876.

92—“
musical séance
”
. . .
“
failure
”: To Henry James, Sr., 11 November 1876.

92—“
peculiar
”: To Henry James, Sr., 30 March 1880.

92—“
sturdy, thickset
”: Cosima Wagner,
Diaries
, ed. Martin Gregor Dellin and Dietrich Mack, trans. Geoffrey Skelton (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978–80) vol. 2, 432.

92—“
rescued
”: Wagner, 439.

93—“
opposed to those
”
. . .
“
nothing else
”: To Grace Norton, 9 April 1880.

93—“
vileness
”
. . .
“
immoralities
”: To Alice James, 25 April 1880.

93—
Kaplan suggests
: See pp. 223–24 of his biography.

94—“
Non ragioniam
”: N, 216.

CHAPTER 8: A LONDON LIFE

95—“
murky metropolis
”: To Mary James, 6 August 1877.

95—“
and Paris was
”: N, 215.

95—“
if I sometimes
”: CTW2, 720.

96—“
I don’t like
”: To William Dean Howells, 28 May 1876.

96—“
say nothing
”: To William James, 13 October 1876.

97—“
beyond expression
”: To Mary James, 24 December 1876.

98—
Lionel Trilling
: “The Princess Casamassima,” in
The Liberal Imagination
(New York: Viking Press, 1950).

98—“
came to know
”: N, 218.

99—“
better sort
”: This is the title James gave to a 1903 collection of stories.

99—“
conversing affably
”: To William James, 29 March 1877.

99—“
agreeable
”
. . .
“
form of life
”: N, 217–18.

100—“
You can do
”: Letter of 28 October 1885. In
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
, ed. Booth and Mehew (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), vol. 5, 143.

100—“
the traces
”: CTW1, 118.

100—“
the dingy, British
”: CTW1, 296.

100—“
modern conversation
”: CTW1, 190.

101—“
cabinets and parties
”: Bosanquet, 52.

101—“
insidious, perfidious
”
. . .
“
good deal
”: To William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880.

101—“
himself
. . .
too hard
”: To Mary James, 4 July 1880.

101—“
tremendous material bribe
”: WJL5, 121.

101—“
inscrutable
”: WJL5, 105.

102—“
dinners and parties
”
. . .
“few points”
: WJL5, 121.

102—“
transitory
”
. . .
“
show them
”: To Mary James, 4 July 1880.

103—“
the whole of
”: To William Dean Howells, 20 July 1880.

103—“
tant bien
”: N, 219.

103—“
for a sniff
”
. . .
“
to work
”: To Alice James, 9 October 1880, unpublished.

104—“
with such tact
”: To Mary James, 28 November 1880.

104—“
steadily, but very slowly
”: N, 220.

CHAPTER 9: THE ENVELOPE OF CIRCUMSTANCES

105—“
strictures on
” . . . “
so much
”: To William Dean Howells, 5 December 1880.

106—“
entertainment of seeing
”: P, 344.

106—“
whether this or that
”: P, 418.

106—“
stubbornest fact
”: P, 309.

107—“
remember what
”: P, 357.

107—“
She had done
”: P, 359.

107—“
You are drifting
”
. . .
“
immoral novel
”: P, 361.

107—“
I shall have
”: P, 374.

108—“
if certain things
”: P, 377.

108—“
never prevaricated
”: P, 374.

108—“
Daddy
”
. . .
“
miss you
”: Ibid.

109—“
cloven foot
”: The
Spectator
’s review was by R. H. Hutton and appeared on 26 November 1881; reprinted in Roger Gard,
Henry James: The Critical Heritage
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968).

109—“
I take
”
. . .
“
veiled acuteness
”: P, 378.

109—“
to marry for a support
”: P, 379.

109—“
immoral
”: P, 381.

109—“
see her going
”: P, 380.

109—“
hovered before him
”: PNY, 5.

110—“
to see what
”: P, 378.

110—
and bank stock
: See Elliot M. Schrero, “How Rich Was Isabel Archer?”
Henry James Review
20.1 (1999).

111—“
should so strongly
”: P, 368.

111—“
I am Madame Merle
”: P, 369.

111—“
deeply recognises
”: PNY, 15–16.

111—“
woman of ardent impulses
”: P, 371.

111—“
too perfectly
”: P, 388.

112—“
to see what
”: P, 384.

112—“
preposterous
”: P, 396.

112—“
yours was
”
. . .
“
his house
”: P, 397.

112—“
When you have lived
”: P, 397–98.

113—“
I think just
”: Ibid.

113—“
What she wore
”: In the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001), 79.