Henry James

1843–1916

Henry James was an American-born novelist, short-story writer and critic who spent much of his adult life in England and became a British citizen in 1915. His fiction explores consciousness, moral uncertainty and the encounters between American and European society. The brother of philosopher William James and diarist Alice James, he helped shape the development of the modern psychological novel.

Timeline of Henry James’s life

Works

• Roderick Hudson (1875)
• The American (1877)
• Daisy Miller (1878)
• The Europeans (1878)
• Washington Square (1880)
• The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
• The Bostonians (1886)
• The Princess Casamassima (1886)
• The Aspern Papers (1888)
• The Tragic Muse (1890)
• The Spoils of Poynton (1897)
• What Maisie Knew (1897)
• The Turn of the Screw (1898)
• The Awkward Age (1899)
• The Wings of the Dove (1902)
• The Ambassadors (1903)
• The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
• The Golden Bowl (1904)
• The Jolly Corner (1908)