Henry James

Henry James

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Henry James was born 15 April 1843, to a wealthy family. He was born in New York, New York USA. His parents were Henry James Sr. and Mary Robertson Walsh; He had one brother William James (January 11 1842-August 26 1910) and one sister Alice James. When Henry James was a young boy he would enjoy reading the classics of English, American, German, French, and Russian literature. Also when he was a kid he and his family would travel back and forth to England and the United States of America. Henry James educated in New York City, London, Paris and Geneva.

  • When was
    Henry James born?

    Henry James was born on Saturday, April 15, 1843

  • Where was
    Henry James born?

    Henry James was born in New York City, New York, USA

  • How old was
    Henry James when they died?

    Henry James was 73

  • When did Henry James die?

    Henry James died on
    Monday, February 28, 1916


Best Quotes

  • So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!
  • It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance ... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
  • I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
  • A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
  • To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
  • Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
  • In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
  • The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
  • The fatal futility of Fact.
  • If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

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