Male : Novelist. Settled in Europe from 1869 and was a naturalised Briton from 1915. Never married. Lived in Rye, Sussex from 1896

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Washington Place, New York

Date of Birth : 1843 Date of Death : 1916 Age : 73

Education : Schools in New York & London. Harvard Law School 1862

[His first publication was in the "Atlantic Monthly" in 1865]

1875-1880
Transatlantic Sketches (1875 Osgood)
A Passionate Pilgrim & Other Tales (1875 Osgood, Boston) - 1500
The American (1877 Osgood) (1877 Yellowback - Ward Lock) (1879 Macmillan, London)
Roderick Hudson (1876 James Osgood, Boston) (1879 Macmillan - 3 vols)
The Europeans : A Sketch (1878 Macmillan - 2 vols) (1879 Houghton, Osgood)
[Filmed in 1979 by Merchant/Ivory]
French Poets and Novelists (1878 Macmillan)
Watch and Ward (1878 Houghton, Osgood) (1878 Houghton, Osgood, UK)
Daisy Miller : A Comedy in 3 Acts (1879 Harper) (1879 Macmillan - 2 vols)
[Filmed in 1974]
An International Episode (1879 Harper)
Confidence (1879 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £1365
(1880 Houghton, Osgood)
Hawthorne (1879 Macmillan)
The Madonna of the Future & Other Tales (1879 Macmillan - 2 vols)
Diary of a Man of Fifty and A Bundle of Letters (1880 Harper)

1881-1890
Washington Square (1881 Harper) - George Du Maurier
(1881 Macmillan - 2 vols)
Offered in 1999 for £350
[Filmed in 1949 as "The Heiress" & in 1997 as "Washington Square"]
The Portrait of a Lady (1881 Macmillan - 3 vols) (1882 Houghton Mifflin)
[Filmed in 1996]
Portraits of Places (1883 Macmillan) (1884 Osgood - 1500 copies)
The Collected Edition (1893 Macmillan) - 14 vols
The Siege of London, The Pension Beaurepas, and The Point of View (1883 Osgood, Boston)
Lady Barberina (1884)
Tale of Three Cities (1884 Osgood) (1884 Macmillan)
A Little Tour in France (1885 Osgood, Boston)
Stories Revived (1885 Macmillan - 3 vols)
The Author of Beltraffio (1885 Osgood, Boston)
The Princess Casamassima (1886 Macmillan - 3 vols) (1887 Macmillan, NY)
The Bostonians (1886 Macmillan - 3 vols) (1886 Macmillan, NY)
[Filmed in 1984]
Partial Portraits (1888 Macmillan, London)
The Reverberator (1888 Macmillan - 2 vols)
The Aspern Papers, Louisa Pallant, The Modern Warning (1888 Macmillan 2 vols) (1888)
[Filmed in 1947 as "The Lost Moment"]
[Filmed in 1981 as "Aspern"]
A London Life, The Patagonia, The Liar, Mrs Temperly (1889 Macmillan - 2 vols)
The Tragic Muse (1890 Houghton Mifflin) - 2 vols (1890 Macmillan - 3 vols)

1891-1895
The Lesson of the Master, The Marriages, The Pupil, Brooksmith, The Solution, &
Sir Edmund Orme (1892 Macmillan)
Essays in London and Elsewhere (1893 Osgood McIlvaine) (1893 Harper)
Picture and Text (1893 Harper)
The Wheel of Time, Collaboration, Owen Wingrave (1893 Harper)
The Private Life, The Wheel of Time, Lord Beaupre, The Visits, Collaboration, Owen
Wingrave (1893 Osgood McIlvaine) (1893 Harper)
The Real Thing & Other Tales (1893 Macmillan)
Theatricals (1894 Osgood McIlvaine)
Terminations, The Death of the Lion, The Coxon Fund, The Middle Years, The Altar of
the Dead (1895 Heinemann) (1895 Harper) - ss
Theatricals : Second Series (1895 Osgood, McIlvaine)

1896-1900
Embarrassments, The Figure in the Carpet, Glasses, The Next Time, The Way it Came
(1896 Heinemann) (1896 Macmillan NY)
The Other House (1896 Heinemann) (1896 Macmillan NY)
The Spoils of Poynton (1897 Heinemann) (1897 Houghton Mifflin)
What Maisie Knew (1897 Heinemann) (1897 Stone, Chicago & NY)
The Two Magics, The Turn of the Screw, Covering End (1898 Heinemann) (1898) - ss
["The Turn of the Screw" filmed in 1992]
In the Cage (1898 Duckworth) - 1500 (1898 Herbert Stone, Chicago & NY)
The Awkward Age (1899 Heinemann) (1899 Harper)
The Soft Side (1900 Methuen) (1901 Macmillan NY)
A Little Tour in France (1900 Heinemann) - Joseph Pennell 150 de luxe edition

1901-1910
The Sacred Fount (1901 Scribner) (1901 Methuen)
The Wings of the Dove (1902 Scribner - 2 vols) (1902 Constable - 4000 copies)
[Filmed in 1997]
The Ambassadors (1903 Harper) (1903 Methuen)
The Better Sort (1903 Methuen) (1903 Scribner)
William Whetmore Story and His Friends (1903 Houghton Mifflin) (1903 Blackwood) - 2 vols
The Golden Bowl (1904 Scribner) - 2 vols (1905 Methuen)
[Filmed in 2000]
English Hours (1905 Heinemann) (1905 Houghton Mifflin) - Joseph Pennell
The Question of Our Speech : The Lesson of Balzac (1905 Houghton Mifflin)
The American Scene (1907 Chapman & Hall)
The New York Edition of the Works (1907-9 Scribner, NY) - 26 vols (1908-9 Macmillan - 26 vols)
Views and Reviews : Now First Collected (1908 Ball Publ Co, Boston)
The Whole Family (1908 Harper) - with others
Julia Bride (1909 Harper) - W T Smedley
The Altar of the Dead (1909) - ss
Italian Hours (1909 Heinemann) (1909 Houghton Mifflin) - Joseph Pennell
The Finer Grain (1910 Scribner) (1910 Methuen - 1500 copies)

1911-1920
The Outcry (1911 Methuen) - 2000 copies (1911 Scribners, NY)
A Small Boy & Others (1913 Scribners) (1913)
Notes of a Son and Brother (1914) (1914 Macmillan)
Notes on Novelists (1914 Dent)
The Uniform Tales of Henry James (1915-20 Martin Secker) - 14 vols
The Middle Years (1917 Collins) (1917 Scribner) - unfinished autobiography
The Ivory Tower (unfinished) (1917 Collins) (1917 Scribner)
The Sense of the Past (unfinished) (1917 Collins) (1917 Scribners)
Gabrielle de Bergerac (1918 NY)
The Jolly Corner (1918 Martin Secker)
Within the Rim & Other Essays (1919 Collins)
Travelling Companions (1919 Boni & Liveright)
The Letters of Henry James (edited by Percy Lubbock) (1920 Scribner) (1920 Macmillan) - 2 vols
Master Eustace (1920 Seltzer NY) - 1500

After 1921
The Novels and Stories of Henry James (1921-3 Macmillan) - 35 vols
A Most Unholy Trade (1923 Scarab Press, Cambridge, Mass) - 100
The Art of the Novel : Critical Prefaces (1934 Scribner)
The Turn of the Screw (1940 Hand & Flower Press) - 200. Mariette Lydis
The Notebooks of Henry James (1947 OUP, NY)
The Ghostly Tales of Henry James (1948 Rutgers UP)
(1971 as "Stories of the Supernatural" by Barrie & Jenkins)
The Scenic Art : Notes on Acting & the Drama 1872-1901 (1948 Rutgers UP) (1949 Hart-Davis)
The Complete Plays (1949 Hart-Davis)
The Turn of the Screw (1949 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500. Mariette Lydis
The Selected Letters of Henry James (1955 Farrar, Straus, Cudahy NY) (1956 Hart-Davis 16/-)
- Edited by Leon Edel
The Painter's Eye : Notes & Essays (1956 Hart-Davis)
The House of Fiction : Essays on the Novel (1957 Hart-Davis)
The Complete Tales (1962-4 Hart-Davis) - 12 vols
The Ambassadors (1963 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Leslie Saalburg
The Portrait of a Lady (1967 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Colleen Browning
Daisy Miller (1969 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Gustave Nebel
Washington Square (1971 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by L S Auchinloss
Henry James : Stories of the Supernatural (1971 Barrie & Jenkins)
The Last of the Valerii (1971 Boydell Press, London) - 120
Letters (edited by Leon Edel) : Vol 1 : 1843-1875 (1974 Macmillan)
The Jolly Corner (1979 Terra Nova, London) - Peter Milton
Autobiography : A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, The Middle Years
(1983 Princeton UP) - Edited by Frederick W Dupee
The Jolly Corner and Other Tales (1990 Penguin £5.99)

READING
Elizabeth Luther Cary : The Novels of Henry James - A Study (1905 Putnam, NY)
Le Roy Phillips : A Bibliography of the Writings of Henry James (1930 NY)
(Ed) Simon Nowell-Smith : The Legend of the Master (1947 Constable)
Janet A Smith : Henry James & Robert Louis Stevenson - A Record of their Friendship
(1948 Hart-Davis)
F O Matthiessen : The James Family (1948 Knopf)
Leon Edel : Henry James (1953-1972 Hart-Davis) - 5 vols
Leon Edel & Dan Laurence : A Bibliography of Henry James
(1957 Hart-Davis) (1982 Clarendon Press. 3rd Ed)
Quentin Anderson : The American Henry James (1958 Calder)
Leon Edel : Henry James - The Middle Years (1963)
H Montgomery Hyde : Henry James at Home (1969 Methuen)
Seymour Chatman : The Later Style of Henry James (1972 Blackwell)
(Compiler) Beatrice Ricks : Henry James - A Bibliography of Secondary Works
(c1975 Scarecrow Press, NJ)
Leon Edel : The Life of Henry James (1977) - 2 vols
Leon Edel : The Complete Notebooks of Henry James (1987)
Sarah B Daugherty : The Literary Criticism of Henry James (1981 Ohio UP)
Jean Strouse : Alice James (1981 Cape £9.95)
[Alice was James's sister]
Edward Wagenknecht : The Tales of Henry James (1984 Frederick Ungar, NY)
Leon Edel : Henry James - A Life (1987 Collins)
Nicola Bradbury : An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Henry James
(1987 Harvester Press, Brighton)
Fred Kaplan : Henry James - The Imagination of a Genius (1992 Hodder & Stoughton)
Tony Tanner : Henry James and the Art of Non-Fiction (1995 Georgia £20.50)
Beverly Haviland : Henry James' Last Romance (1998 £35 CUP)