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Washington Square (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

Places Discussed

*Washington Square. Fashionable neighborhood at the southern end of New York City’s Manhattan borough that sits near the transition between the narrow, helter-skelter streets with quaint names of the original colonial settlement and the carefully planned grid of streets and avenues with numbers for names above the island’s Fourth Street. Henry James himself was born near Washington Square.

Catherine’s father, Dr. Austin Sloper, first lived near city hall in the older part of Manhattan, which by the time in which the novel is set was becoming...

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• Henry James (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Henry James (Short Fiction)
• Henry James (Long Fiction)
• Henry James (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Henry James (Identities and Issues)
• Henry James (Drama)

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• - For teachers, the Washington Square Lesson Plan.