![]() ![]() Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, and in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1905 he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907).ĭuring his career he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Other famous works include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels of the new century, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). In December 1876 he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. ![]() Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote The American (1877). In 1869, and then in 1872≧4, he paid visits to Europe and began his first novel, Roderick Hudson. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, and in 1864 began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines. He spent his early life in America and studied in Geneva, London and Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. HENRY JAMES (1843≡916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. ![]()
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