Portrait of A Novel (50 page)

   
Washington Square,
40, 44, 70, 99, 101, 294, 309, 315

   
What Maisie Knew,
xxi, 90, 294–95, 300, 304, 315

   
William Wetmore Story and His Friends,
144–45, 149, 317

   
The Wings of the Dove,
29–30, 109, 157, 174, 187, 303, 307

James, Henry, Sr., 14, 17–18, 20, 210, 219, 260–61, 321

   depression and death of, 257, 261, 262–65, 280

   HJ’s letters to, 61, 92, 105

   Quincy Street house of, 24, 38

   travels abroad with family by, 15–16, 36

James, Henry “Harry” (nephew), 258, 319–20

James, Mary Walsh, 14, 16, 24, 258

   HJ’s letters to, 29, 43, 80

   illness and death of, 259–61, 262, 265, 280

James, Wilky, 15, 17, 20, 27, 32, 261

   in Civil War, 18, 323

James, William, xvi, xxii, 21, 32, 180, 260, 261, 306, 307, 314

   Beacon Hill residence of, 258

   criticisms of HJ’s works by, 43, 105, 321

   European travels of, 27

   as Harvard professor, 24, 38, 101, 264

   as Harvard student, 18

   health of, 20, 27

   Henry James, Sr.’s death and, 257, 262–63, 264

   on HJ, 16

   HJ’s letters to, 29, 33, 58, 61, 80, 84–85, 96, 105, 143, 148, 177, 263, 283, 286, 292, 299

   HJ’s relationship with, 13–14

   illness and death of, 319–20, 324

   on individuality, 115–16

   inheritance of, 264

   letters of, 38, 58

   marriage of, 14, 20, 24, 80, 281

   as painter, 15, 17

   pragmatism of, 32, 105

   stream of consciousness defined by, 230, 234–35

   summer house of, 307, 320–21

   visits to HJ by, 38, 101–2, 121, 127–28, 258

   writings of, 13, 102, 115–16, 260, 320

Jane Eyre
(Brontë), 68

Jarves, James Jackson, 139

Jennings, L. J., 244–45, 246

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 129, 210

John Blackwood, 59

Joyce, James, 10

Jupiter Lights
(Woolson), 180

Kant, Immanuel, 314–15

Kantian sublime, 159

Kaplan, Fred, 78, 185

Keats, John, 142, 188

Kemble, Fanny, 99, 148

Kensington Gardens, 285, 292

Kettle, Arnold, 277

King Lear
(Shakespeare), 273

Kipling, Rudyard, xxii, 300

“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 153

Ku Klux Klan, 27

Labour Party, 209

“Lady or the Tiger, The” (Stockton), 243

La Farge, John, 17

Lake Erie, Battle of, 17

Lamb House, xii, xx–xxii, 88, 97, 145, 184, 296–97, 305

language, American, xv

Larkin, Philip, 79

Lawrence, D. H., 253, 330

Leckie, Barbara, 303

Lee, Vernon, 131

lesbianism, 282

Lettres de mon Moulin
(Daudet), 249

Lewes, George Henry, 58–60, 61–62

Lewes, Mary Ann Evans,
see
Eliot, George

Lewes, Thornton, 62

Lewis, R. W. B., 114

libraries:

   commercial lending, 193, 304

   free, 240

   Mudie’s, 193, 219, 240, 253

Library of Congress, 212

Lily (char.), 161

Lincoln, Abraham, 17, 18, 23

Linton, Eliza Lynn, 195

Lippincott’s,
146, 242

Liverpool, 12, 32

local color stories, 129, 178

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 41

London, 40–41, 45, 170, 180, 262, 287, 324

   Bolton Street flat in, 96–97, 192–93, 208, 257, 258–59, 261, 285, 296

   on the brink of modernity, 100

   Cheyne Walk apartment in, 322

   Constance Fenimore Woolson in, 175–76

   De Vere Gardens flat in, 285–86, 292, 296

   HJ in, xvii, xviii, xxi, 34, 40–42, 77, 79, 88, 103, 123, 165, 168, 249, 295–96

   HJ’s, 99–100, 286

   HJ’s move to, 95–101

   Isabel Archer’s November walk in, 161

   theater in, 287–92

Loring, Katherine, 281–82

Lorrain, Claude, 153

Loseley Park, 49

Lowell, James Russell, 89, 210

Lowell, Mass., 123

Lund, Michael, 215, 219

MacAlpine, William, 295, 297

Macbeth
(Shakespeare), 269

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 121, 136

Macmillan, 34, 43, 98, 103, 208, 219, 239–40, 284, 318

Macmillan, Alexander, 211

Macmillan, Frederick, 44, 211, 213

Macmillan’s Magazine,
xix, 44, 103, 104, 173, 174, 208–14, 217

Madame Bovary
(Flaubert), 68, 107, 192, 194, 195, 202, 303

   James Fitzjames Stephen on, 193–94

   Mario Vargas Llosa on, 250–51

Madame X,
224, 334

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
(Crane), 330

Maine, 129

Main-Travelled Roads
(Garland), xxii

“Maison Tellier, La” (Maupassant), 199

malaria, 205

Malvern, 28

Marble Faun, The
(Hawthorne), 35, 112, 122, 145, 148–49

Marie (cousin), 20–21

Marlborough, Duke of, 109

Marseilles, 166

Mason, Alice, 148

Master, The
(Tóibín), 91

Mattei family, 225

Matthiessen, F. O., 311

Maupassant, Guy de, 39, 196–99, 246, 251, 252

McClellan, Katherine,
255

Medici dukes, 121

Melville, Herman, 36, 69, 209

Mengin, Urbain, 89

Meredith, George, 210

Merle, Madame (char.), 111–16, 124–25, 133–37, 149, 151, 161, 174–75, 220, 222–24, 226, 232, 238, 271, 279, 305, 310, 314, 315, 327

   Gilbert Osmond’s relationship with, 139–40, 224, 227, 228, 268, 272–77, 303–4

Metastasio (Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi), 136

Middlemarch
(Eliot), xxiv, 7, 8, 9, 142, 234–36, 244

   HJ on, 58, 62–67

   marriage plot of, 68–70, 73, 231, 331–32

   serialization of, 212, 216–17, 220

Milan, 166

Mill, John Stuart, 58

Mill on the Floss, The
(Eliot), 9, 57, 216

Milton, John, xix, 277, 326

Milwaukee, Wisc., 27, 261

Mind,
235

“Miss Grief” (Woolson), 129, 184

Moby-Dick
(Melville), 36

Modern Instance, A
(Howells), 251, 273

modernism:

   HJ and, 77, 300

   
The Portrait of a Lady
and, xvi

   suspicion of plot in, 249

Modern Lover, A
(Moore), 193

Montaigne, Michel de, 45

Moore, George, 193, 252

Mrs. Warren’s Profession
(Shaw), 290

Mudie, Charles Edward, 193

Mudie’s lending library, 193, 219, 240, 253

Murdoch, Iris, 271

Murray’s
Handbook of Rome,
146, 147

Mysteries of Udolpho, The
(Radcliffe), 112

Nadal, E. S., 80, 85

Nana
(Zola), 40–41, 90, 198, 201–3

Naples, 44, 92, 93, 130, 276

Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 166, 324

Nation,
23, 34, 104, 220, 241

National Gallery, 102

National Portrait Gallery, 322

naturalism, 26, 200, 249, 283

   William Dean Howells and, 251

Nest of Gentlefolk, A
(Turgenev), 39

neurasthenia, 180

New Hampshire, 321

New Novel, The,
191–92, 194, 205

Newport, R.I., xv, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, 123, 138, 168, 296, 297, 306, 321, 323

New Woman, 253

New York, N.Y., xv, 12, 13, 33–34, 36, 96, 126, 191, 259, 262, 270, 306

New York Sun,
7–8, 241

New York Tribune,
96, 198

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 252

Ninci, Giuseppe,
119

Normandy, 199

Norris, Frank, 26

North American Review,
20, 32, 38, 40, 104

North and South
(Gaskell), 214

Northanger Abbey
(Austen), 192

North Conway, N.H., 21, 23

Norton, Charles Eliot, 32, 45, 89

   HJ’s letters to, 32–33, 60

Norton, Grace, 45–47, 89

   George Eliot’s friendship with, 62

   HJ’s letters to, 45–46, 81, 86, 93, 126

nouveau roman,
251

novels, 36

   American,
see
American literature

   censorship of, 192–94, 201

   of character vs. novel of incident, 248–49

   Continental, 68

   cost of, 192

   French, 193–204, 244, 246, 249, 250–53

   Great American, xv

   limits on autonomy in, 278

   narrative disjunctions in, 231–32

   naturalism in, 26, 200, 249, 251, 283

   realist, 25–26, 314

   Victorian,
see
Victorian novels

   William James’s dismissive judgment of, 43

Novick, Sheldon, 89

Odyssey
(Homer), 231

Oliphant, Margaret, 194, 214

   American literature criticized by, 244

   
The Portrait of a Lady
reviewed by, 241, 331

���On Some Omissions of Introspective Psychology” (William James), 235

Order of Merit, 324

Osmond, Gilbert (char.), 124–25, 149, 151, 174–75, 196, 207, 222, 268, 315–16

   declaration by, 157–59, 218, 272, 329

   as exemplary expatriate, 124, 163

   Isabel Archer’s fascination with, 134–37, 155–59, 162–64, 276, 311, 328, 329

   Isabel Archer’s marriage to, 136, 159–61, 164, 166, 214, 221, 222–38, 271–77, 303–4

   limitations placed on Isabel Archer by, 162–64, 225, 230–31, 232–33, 234, 238, 269, 273, 274–75, 313, 325, 326

   Lord Warburton–Pansy Osmond courtship sought by, 229, 230, 237, 271–72, 274

   Madame Merle’s relationship with, 139–40, 224, 227, 228, 268, 272–77, 303–4

   mutual dislike of Ralph Touchett and, 126, 134, 156, 162–63, 164, 223, 228, 238, 316

   as nonentity, 163

   objections to, 136, 155–56, 162–64, 223

   taste as defining characteristic of, 133–39, 156–57, 163–64, 225–26, 233, 238, 273

Osmond, Pansy (char.), 124, 133, 134, 135, 158, 159, 196, 218, 222–24, 228–29, 278–79, 314, 315–16

   identity of mother of, 275–77

   Isabel Archer’s promise to, 279, 313, 333

Othello
(Shakespeare), 194

Oxford, 180

Oxford University, 50, 54

“Ozymandias” (Shelley), 153

Pakenham, General, 45

Palazzo Antici-Mattei, 225–26

Palazzo Barbaro, 169, 182, 188

Palazzo Pitti, 121

Paradise Lost
(Milton), xix, 277, 326

Paris, 27, 41, 91, 121, 125, 161, 170,
189,
262, 305

   Americans resident in, 146, 165–66, 169

   artists in, 147

   HJ in, 28, 34, 37, 42, 78, 92, 165, 197, 258

   HJ’s decision to depart from, 95–97

   Ivan Turgenev in, 38–40

Paris Commune, 197–98

Parkman, Francis, 53

Parsifal,
94

Pater, Walter, 138

Pemble, John, 146

Pensione Wildner, 168

Pepino, 92–93

Père Goriot
(Balzac), 52, 98

Perry, Oliver Hazard, 17

Perry, Thomas Sergeant, 17, 20

   HJ’s letters to, 27, 31

Persse, Jocelyn, 89

Pevsner, Nikolaus, 48

Phineas Finn
(Trollope), 220

Picture of Dorian Grey, The
(Wilde), 200

Pierce, Franklin, 32

Pinero, Arthur Wing, 289

Pinker, J. B., 323

   New York Edition and, xii–xiv, xvi, xxii, 47, 307–8

plot:

   HJ’s view of, 25, 40, 66, 244, 245

   modernist suspicion of, 248–49

   in Victorian novels, 25

Pluralistic Universe, A
(William James), 320

Plymouth, 45

Poe, Edgar Allan, 29

“Political Somnambulism” (Seeley), 210

Ponte Vecchio, 121

Porta Romano, 121–22

Portrait of a Lady
(Homer), 191

Portrait of a Lady, The
(Henry James), xx,
1,
34, 57, 77, 80, 93, 98, 101, 138, 173, 198, 260, 267, 284

   ambition behind, 43

   American life and identity in, 53–54

   artists absent in, 148–49

   as breakthrough moment in HJ’s style, 235–36

   as bridge between British and American novels, xvi–xvii

   as bridge between Victorian and modernist novels, xvi–xvii, xviii, 218, 220–21, 237–38, 300, 330

   categorical imperative in, 314–15

   characterization in, 66, 295

   chronology of, 232–38

   concurrent serial publication of, 44, 211–13

   consciousness depicted in, 295

   Constance Fenimore Woolson on, 175, 243, 284

   early version of, 43, 72

   Edith Wharton’s echoes of, 207

   ending of, xvi, 6, 65, 242, 330–34

   expatriates as parasites in, 124–25

   Florence as site for writing of, 121, 128

   form of, 66

   George Eliot’s influence on, xxiv, 69–70

   HJ’s preface to, xvi, xxiii–xxiv, 4–5, 75, 116, 171, 235, 334

   HJ’s proofreading of book edition, 240–41

   HJ’s reputation and, 131, 169, 284–85

   
in medias res
opening of, 7

   language of architecture in, 50–51

   Library of America edition of, xix

   loss of innocence in, 277–78

   march of action in, 294

   Minny Temple and, 27, 46–50

   notes for, 293

   plot in, 273–77

   publication in book form of, 239–41, 280, 305, 318

   reviews of, 7–8, 241–43

   revisions of, xv, xvi, xix, xxiii, 8, 110, 111, 132, 136, 155–59, 237–38, 240–41, 309–17, 327–28, 330–32