James, Henry
James, Henry ( 1843 – 1916 ),born in New York of ancestry originally both Irish and Scottish. His father, Henry James senior, was a remarkable writer on questions of theology and a follower of Swedenborg . His elder brother William (below) was a distinguished philosopher. After a desultory education in New York, London, Paris, and Geneva, Henry James entered the law school at Harvard in 1862 . He settled in Europe in 1875 . From 1865 he was a regular contributor of reviews and short stories to American periodicals and owed much to his friendship with W. D. Howells . His first considerable piece of fiction, Watch and Ward, appeared serially in 1871 ; this was followed by Transatlantic Sketches and A Passionate Pilgrim in 1875 , and his first important novel Roderick Hudson in 1876 (in the Atlantic Monthly , 1875 ). For more than 20 years he lived in London, and in ...
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