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Lady and, xvi–xvii, xviii, 140
       self-censorship in, 74, 157
       serialization of, 208–21
       sexuality in, 195–96
       three-volume, 240, 241, 252–53
    Villa Brichieri-Colombi, 176–78
    Villa Castellani, 122–24
    Villette (Brontë), 131, 241
    Virgil, 231
    Virginian, The (Wister), 148
    Viztelly, Henry, 203, 252
     
    Wagner, Cosima, 92–93
    Wagner, Richard, 44, 92–94, 95, 130
    Walpole, Hugh, 89, 298
    Walsh, Catherine, 33
    Warburton, Lord (char.), 3–4, 6–7, 10, 51, 133, 142–43, 148, 155–56, 163, 164, 268, 325–26, 328
       Isabel Archer’s rejection of, 66, 70–76, 106–7, 113, 136, 156–57, 218, 228, 329
       Pansy Osmond courted by, 226–30, 274
    War of 1812, 17
    Washington, D.C., 40, 85, 212, 259, 290, 323
    Weisbuch, Robert, 35
    Wells, H. G., xxii, 289
    Westminster Review, 58
    Wharton, Edith, 36, 79, 91, 139, 149, 206–7, 241, 307, 330
       sales of, xii
    Whistler, James McNeill, 146
    Whitchurch-on-Thames, 48
    White Mountains, 22, 308, 321
    Whitman, Walt, 19, 323
    Wilde, Oscar, 200, 279, 297
       HJ’s dislike of, 85, 290
       homosexuality of, 78, 83, 85, 290, 299
       as playwright, 288, 290, 291–92
    Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Prussia, 128
    Wilson, Woodrow, 323
    Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame), 49
    Wisconsin, 27, 32
    Wister, Owen, 148
    Wister, Sara Butler, 148
    Wolseley, Sir Garnet, 61
    women, condition of, 72, 253
    Woolf, Virginia, xvi, 88, 194, 231, 235–36, 249, 253, 302, 321
    Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 94, 128–32, 174–88, 315
       death of, 182–86, 266
       depression of, 180, 182–83, 186
       on The Portrait of a Lady, 175, 243, 284
    Wordsworth, William, 74, 153
    World War I, 322–24
     
    Zhukovsky, Paul, 44, 78, 91–96, 101, 130, 131, 198
    Zola, Émile, 204, 246, 250–53, 265, 271
       at Gustave Flaubert’s cénacle, 39, 96, 197, 199
       HJ’s opinion of, 90, 198, 201–3
       naturalism and, 26, 200, 249, 283
       translation of, 203, 304

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. His books include After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie ; The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany ; and, as editor, the Norton Critical Edition of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying . He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, along with the Balakian award of the National Book Critics Circle for his work as a reviewer. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.

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    Portrait of a novel : Henry James and the making
of an American masterpiece / Michael Gorra. — 1st ed.
           p. cm.
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN 978-0-87140-408-4 (hardcover)
    1. James, Henry, 1843–1916. 2. Authors, American—19th century—Biography. 3. Authors, American—20th century—Biography.
4. James, Henry, 1843–1916. Portrait of a lady. 5. American fiction—European influences. I. Title. II. Title: Henry James
and the making of an American masterpiece.
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