Letters From the Palazzo BarbaroSteerforth Press, 29 sty 2013 - 224 The novelist Henry James arrived in Venice as a tourist, and instantly fell in love with the city – particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, home of the expatriate American Curtis family. This selection of letters covers the period 1869-1907 and provides a unique record of the life and work of this great writer. Includes historical photographs and a foreword by Leon Edel, Henry James’s biographer. |
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... Bronson, came fortea and chatted about commonplace things; hereJohn Addington Symonds, the historian of the Italian renaissance, a Victorian with a “secret life” and his friend Horatio Brown, frequently dined. And here Henry James, the ...
... Bronson, came fortea and chatted about commonplace things; hereJohn Addington Symonds, the historian of the Italian renaissance, a Victorian with a “secret life” and his friend Horatio Brown, frequently dined. And here Henry James, the ...
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... Bronson's Casa Alvisi, on the Grand Canal, right across fromthe Salute, and then that of the Curtises at Palazzo Barbaro. He had had thetimeto possess himself of the city, writing on it on several occasions,in the essays, from Venice ...
... Bronson's Casa Alvisi, on the Grand Canal, right across fromthe Salute, and then that of the Curtises at Palazzo Barbaro. He had had thetimeto possess himself of the city, writing on it on several occasions,in the essays, from Venice ...
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... Bronson (XXI, XXII)donot hide ormaskthe impression of horror which Miss Woolson's death had wrought on James. A sense of horror clearly accompanied by asense ofguilt—it doesnot matter whether justified ornot—that crops up alsointhe long ...
... Bronson (XXI, XXII)donot hide ormaskthe impression of horror which Miss Woolson's death had wrought on James. A sense of horror clearly accompanied by asense ofguilt—it doesnot matter whether justified ornot—that crops up alsointhe long ...
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... ofEnglish novels (IV), became possible “germs” for the sublimecharacter of MillyTheale. Good Mrs. Bronson, Browning'sfriend in thelast years of thepoet'slife, suggestedto James the character of Mrs. Prest in The Aspern Papers. James.
... ofEnglish novels (IV), became possible “germs” for the sublimecharacter of MillyTheale. Good Mrs. Bronson, Browning'sfriend in thelast years of thepoet'slife, suggestedto James the character of Mrs. Prest in The Aspern Papers. James.
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... Bronson, who haslearnt Italian but especially the Venetian dialect so well thatshe canwrite commediette inthis dialect and stage them at home, with “monstrously clever” young players.35 Theseexpatriates have, however, astrong animosity ...
... Bronson, who haslearnt Italian but especially the Venetian dialect so well thatshe canwrite commediette inthis dialect and stage them at home, with “monstrously clever” young players.35 Theseexpatriates have, however, astrong animosity ...
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