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HENRY JAMES (STORY DATE FEBRUARY 1868)

SOURCE: James, Henry. "The Romance of Some Old Cloths." In Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural, compiled by Robin Brockman, pp. 167-85. New York: Gramercy Books, 2002.

The following excerpt is from a short story originally published February 1868 as "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" in the Atlantic Monthly.

The marriage was to all appearance a happy one, and each party obtained what each had desired—Lloyd 'a devilish fine woman', and Rosalind—but Rosalind's desires, as the reader will have observed, had remained a good deal of a mystery. There were, indeed, two blots upon their felicity, but time would perhaps efface them. During the first three years of her marriage Mrs Lloyd failed to become a mother, and her husband on his side suffered heavy losses of money. This latter circumstance compelled a material retrenchment in his...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Henry James (Story Date February 1868)
4. General Commentary
   1. Raymond Thorberg (Essay Date Summer 1967)
5. Title Commentary
   1. "The Jolly Corner"
6. Further Reading

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