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HENRY JAMES was born in 1843 in Washington Place, New York, of Scottish and Irish ancestry. His father was a prominent theologian and philosopher and his elder brother, William, also became famous as a philosopher. James attended schools in New York and later in London, Paris and Geneva, before briefly entering the Law School at Harvard in 1862. In 1865 he began to contribute reviews and short stories to American journals. He visited Europe twice as an adult before moving to Paris in 1875, where he met Flaubert, Turgenev and other literary figures. However, after a year he moved to London, where he met with such success in society that he confessed to accepting 107 invitations in the winter of 18789 alone. In 1898 he left London and went to live at Lamb House, Rye, Sussex. Henry James became a naturalized British citizen in 1915, and was awarded the Order of Merit in 1916, shortly before his death in February of that year.

In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, biography and autobiography, and much travel writing, he wrote some twenty novels, the first of which, Watch and Ward, appeared serially in the Atlantic Monthly in 1871. His novella Daisy Miller (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic. Other novels include Roderick Hudson (1875), The American (1877), The Europeans (1878), Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The Tragic Muse (1890), The Spoils of Poynton (1897), What Maisie Knew (1897), The Awkward Age (1899), The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904).

MARTHA BANTA is Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles. The author of six books and numerous essays on American literature and cultural studies, she is the recipient of life-time achievement awards from the Modern Language Association and the American Studies Association.

PHILIP HORNE is a Professor of English at University College London. He is the author of Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition (1990); editor of Henry James: A Life in Letters (1999); and co-editor of Thorold Dickinson; A World of Film (2008). He has also edited Henry James, A London Life & The Reverberator; and for Penguin, Henry James, The Tragic Muse, and Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist. He has written articles on Henry James, and on a wide range of other subjects, including telephones and literature, zombies and consumer culture, the films of Powell and Pressburger and Martin Scorsese, the texts of Emily Dickinson, and the criticism of F. R. Leavis.

HENRY JAMES

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MARTHA BANTA

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1843 15 April: HJ born at 21 Washington Place in New York City, second of five children of Henry James (181182), speculative theologian and social thinker, whose strict entrepreneur father had amassed wealth estimated at $3 million, one of the top ten American fortunes of his time, and his wife Mary (181082), daughter of James Walsh, a New York cotton merchant of Scottish family.

18435 Accompanies parents to Paris and London.

18457 James family returns to USA and settles in Albany, NY.

184755 Family settles in New York City; HJ taught by tutors and in private schools.

18558 Family travels in Europe: Geneva, London, Paris, Boulogne-sur-Mer. Returns to USA and settles in Newport, Rhode Island.

185960 Family in Europe again: HJ attends scientific school, then the Academy (later the University) in Geneva. Learns German in Bonn.

September 1860: Louse Family returns to Newport. HJ makes friends with future critic T. S. Perry (who records that HJ was continually writing stories, mainly of a romantic kind) and artist John La Farge.

18613 Injures his back helping to extinguish a fire in Newport and is exempted from military service in American Civil War (18615).

Autumn 1862: Enters Harvard Law School for a term. Begins to send stories to magazines.

1864 February. First short story, A Tragedy of Error, published anonymously in Continental Monthly.

May: Family moves to 13 Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachusetts.

October: Unsigned review published in North American Review.

1865 March: First signed tale, The Story of a Year, appears in Atlantic Monthly. HJs criticism published in first number of the Nation (New York).

18668 Continues reviewing and writing stories.

Summer 1866: W. D. Howells, novelist, critic and influential editor, becomes a friend.

November: Family moves to 20 Quincy Street, beside Harvard Yard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1869 Travels for his health to England, where he meets John Ruskin, William Morris, Charles Darwin and George Eliot; also visits Switzerland and Italy.

1870 March: Death in America of his much-loved cousin Minny Temple.

May: HJ, still unwell, is reluctantly back in Cambridge.

1871 August-December: First short novel, Watch and Ward, serialized in Atlantic Monthly.

18724 Accompanies invalid sister Alice and aunt Catherine Walsh (Aunt Kate) to Europe in May. Writes travel pieces for the Nation. Between October 1872 and September 1874 spends periods of time in Paris, Rome, Switzerland, Homburg and Italy without his family.

Spring 1874: Begins first long novel, Roderick Hudson, in Florence.

September: Returns to USA.

1875 January: Publishes