‘I thirst for his blood’
Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Henry James, 25 November 1999
Henry James: A Life in Letters
edited by Philip Horne.
Penguin, 668 pp., £25, June 1999,0 7139 9126 7 Show More
edited by Philip Horne.
Penguin, 668 pp., £25, June 1999,
A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art
by Lyndall Gordon.
Chatto, 500 pp., £20, October 1998,0 7011 6166 3 Show More
by Lyndall Gordon.
Chatto, 500 pp., £20, October 1998,
“... mundane matters, such as James’s relations with the literary market; and here the artist’s patience was evidently not inexhaustible. A 1909 letter to his agent, James Brand Pinker, reads in full: ‘I am greatly obliged to you for what you have done, with Putnam, for the “Bench of Desolation”, & am quite content, as a pis aller, with the £75. But ... ”