The Bostonians (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry James
- First Published: 1885
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1870’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, New York City, Social issues, New England, Reformers, Women’s rights, Hypnotism
- Locales: New York, NY, Boston, MA
Places Discussed
*Boston. Massachusetts’s capital and leading city, known in this novel mainly as the city of reform and feminist views, which one character refers to as “Boston ideas.”
*Charles Street. Fashionable Boston street on which Olive Chancellor, the novel’s central feminist figure, lives. Near the even more fashionable Beacon Street. Because of where she lives, the wealthy Olive is expected to move in fashionable circles, but she has cut herself off from that milieu in order to be a reformer.
Olive’s house. Boston residence of Olive Chancellor;...
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