Portrait of a Failure
Daniel Aaron, 25 January 1990
The Letters of Henry Adams: Vols I-VI
edited by J.C Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee and Viola Hopkins-Winner.
Harvard, 2016 pp., £100.75, July 1990,0 674 52685 6 Show More
edited by J.C Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee and Viola Hopkins-Winner.
Harvard, 2016 pp., £100.75, July 1990,
“... its own decay’. Henry James knew nothing about ‘Woman’, because ‘he never had a wife.’ William DeanHowells always slipped up when he dealt with ‘gentlemen and ladies’, whereas Adams’s friend, John Hay, demonstrated in his novel The Bread-Winners that he understood not only women but also ... ”