PETER COLLISTER, a former college Assistant Principal, has published many essays in Europe and America on a range of nineteenth-century British and French authors. He is the author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America and later edited for the university presses of Cambridge and Virginia the award-winning volumes, The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama, James’s autobiographical writings, A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years, as well as The American Scene.

• Acknowledgments ixNote on the text xiAbbreviations xiiPrelude: James and Biography xivPart I The Early Years 11 ‘Wondering and Dawdling and Gaping’ in New York City (1843 –1855) 32 Europe and Newport: In Search of a ‘Sensuous Education’ (1855 –1861) 263 Civil War and ‘a Consecration to Letters’ (1861–1869) 49Part II Independence and Europe 714 Italy and the ‘Complex Fate’ of Being an American (1869 –1872) 735 Return to Italy and ‘an Incalculable Number of Gathered Impressions’ (1872 –1873) 936 Rome and Paris: Roderick Hudson: An Experiment in Journalism (1873 –1876) 1107 ‘The Wheel of London Life’ and Early Novels (1876 –1879) 1348 Friendships Begin and End: The Achievement of The Portrait of a Lady (1879–1881) 156Part III The Lure of the Theatre 1819 Family Deaths: New Friendships in Europe (1881–1884) 18310 A Range of Novels: Robert Louis Stevenson and Constance Fenimore Woolson (1885–1887) 20911 ‘The Sawdust & Orange-peel Phase’ Begins: The Tragic Muse (1887–1891) 22912 Deaths and Losses: Theatrical Ventures (1891 –1895) 248Part IV The Later Years 26913 Return to ‘The Sacred Fluid of Fiction’ (1895 –1899) 27114 A Roman Encounter: ‘Letting Yourself Go’ (1899 –1902) 29715 ‘Dearly Beloved’ Young Men: The Final Novels (1902 –1904) 32316 The ‘Agreeable and Absorbing Adventure’ of America: The New York Edition and Last Stories (1904 –1909) 34317 Loss of William, ‘So Shining a Presence’: Autobiographical Writing: The Great War and Death (1909 –1916) 369Letter Details 395Notes 421Bibliography 435Index 447

PETER COLLISTER, a former college Assistant Principal, has published many essays in Europe and America on a range of nineteenth-century British and French authors. He is the author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America and later edited for the university presses of Cambridge and Virginia the award-winning volumes, The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama, James’s autobiographical writings, A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years, as well as The American Scene.

• Acknowledgments ixNote on the text xiAbbreviations xiiPrelude: James and Biography xivPart I The Early Years 11 ‘Wondering and Dawdling and Gaping’ in New York City (1843 –1855) 32 Europe and Newport: In Search of a ‘Sensuous Education’ (1855 –1861) 263 Civil War and ‘a Consecration to Letters’ (1861–1869) 49Part II Independence and Europe 714 Italy and the ‘Complex Fate’ of Being an American (1869 –1872) 735 Return to Italy and ‘an Incalculable Number of Gathered Impressions’ (1872 –1873) 936 Rome and Paris: Roderick Hudson: An Experiment in Journalism (1873 –1876) 1107 ‘The Wheel of London Life’ and Early Novels (1876 –1879) 1348 Friendships Begin and End: The Achievement of The Portrait of a Lady (1879–1881) 156Part III The Lure of the Theatre 1819 Family Deaths: New Friendships in Europe (1881–1884) 18310 A Range of Novels: Robert Louis Stevenson and Constance Fenimore Woolson (1885–1887) 20911 ‘The Sawdust & Orange-peel Phase’ Begins: The Tragic Muse (1887–1891) 22912 Deaths and Losses: Theatrical Ventures (1891 –1895) 248Part IV The Later Years 26913 Return to ‘The Sacred Fluid of Fiction’ (1895 –1899) 27114 A Roman Encounter: ‘Letting Yourself Go’ (1899 –1902) 29715 ‘Dearly Beloved’ Young Men: The Final Novels (1902 –1904) 32316 The ‘Agreeable and Absorbing Adventure’ of America: The New York Edition and Last Stories (1904 –1909) 34317 Loss of William, ‘So Shining a Presence’: Autobiographical Writing: The Great War and Death (1909 –1916) 369Letter Details 395Notes 421Bibliography 435Index 447

PETER COLLISTER, a former college Assistant Principal, has published many essays in Europe and America on a range of nineteenth-century British and French authors. He is the author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America and later edited for the university presses of Cambridge and Virginia the award-winning volumes, The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama, James’s autobiographical writings, A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years, as well as The American Scene.

• Acknowledgments ixNote on the text xiAbbreviations xiiPrelude: James and Biography xivPart I The Early Years 11 ‘Wondering and Dawdling and Gaping’ in New York City (1843 –1855) 32 Europe and Newport: In Search of a ‘Sensuous Education’ (1855 –1861) 263 Civil War and ‘a Consecration to Letters’ (1861–1869) 49Part II Independence and Europe 714 Italy and the ‘Complex Fate’ of Being an American (1869 –1872) 735 Return to Italy and ‘an Incalculable Number of Gathered Impressions’ (1872 –1873) 936 Rome and Paris: Roderick Hudson: An Experiment in Journalism (1873 –1876) 1107 ‘The Wheel of London Life’ and Early Novels (1876 –1879) 1348 Friendships Begin and End: The Achievement of The Portrait of a Lady (1879–1881) 156Part III The Lure of the Theatre 1819 Family Deaths: New Friendships in Europe (1881–1884) 18310 A Range of Novels: Robert Louis Stevenson and Constance Fenimore Woolson (1885–1887) 20911 ‘The Sawdust & Orange-peel Phase’ Begins: The Tragic Muse (1887–1891) 22912 Deaths and Losses: Theatrical Ventures (1891 –1895) 248Part IV The Later Years 26913 Return to ‘The Sacred Fluid of Fiction’ (1895 –1899) 27114 A Roman Encounter: ‘Letting Yourself Go’ (1899 –1902) 29715 ‘Dearly Beloved’ Young Men: The Final Novels (1902 –1904) 32316 The ‘Agreeable and Absorbing Adventure’ of America: The New York Edition and Last Stories (1904 –1909) 34317 Loss of William, ‘So Shining a Presence’: Autobiographical Writing: The Great War and Death (1909 –1916) 369Letter Details 395Notes 421Bibliography 435Index 447