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- catalog abstract ""Henry James was not only a prolific novelist but also a prolific letter writer. This edition of 150 previously unpublished letters to four of his female contemporaries reveals James to be a warm, witty, and astute commentator on a world now lost. The James revealed in these engaging letters is a vital, clever, and lively man with an intense interest in the affairs of his day. The letters present a delightful picture of Victorian-Edwardian culture, including health cures (Fletcherizing and going to health spas), literary scandals (he feared writer Edith Wharton would be destroyed by her mad husband Teddy), domestic affairs (the marriage market, child rearing, antiquing, decorating, and gardening), and historical events (the Civil War, Queen Victoria's funeral, England's great Coal Strike, the Dreyfus case, and World War I)." "Editor Susan Gunter has selected and annotated letters exchanged between James and four women in his social milieu: Alice Howe Gibbens James, wife of William James; Mary Cadwalader Jones, wife of Frederic Rhinelander Jones (New York socialite and Edith Wharton's brother); Mary Frances Prothero, wife of Cambridge academic Sir George Prothero; and Lady Louisa Wolseley, wife of Viscount Garnet Wolseley, commander-in-chief of the British Forces. Susan Gunter's introduction offers a helpful historical overview of nineteenth-century women's roles, a biographical register of people mentioned in the letters, a chronology, and brief biographies of the four women correspondents."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11374839.
- catalog contributor b11374840.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Henry James was not only a prolific novelist but also a prolific letter writer. This edition of 150 previously unpublished letters to four of his female contemporaries reveals James to be a warm, witty, and astute commentator on a world now lost. The James revealed in these engaging letters is a vital, clever, and lively man with an intense interest in the affairs of his day. The letters present a delightful picture of Victorian-Edwardian culture, including health cures (Fletcherizing and going to health spas), literary scandals (he feared writer Edith Wharton would be destroyed by her mad husband Teddy), domestic affairs (the marriage market, child rearing, antiquing, decorating, and gardening), and historical events (the Civil War, Queen Victoria's funeral, England's great Coal Strike, the Dreyfus case, and World War I)." "Editor Susan Gunter has selected and annotated letters exchanged between James and four women in his social milieu: Alice Howe Gibbens James, wife of William James; Mary Cadwalader Jones, wife of Frederic Rhinelander Jones (New York socialite and Edith Wharton's brother); Mary Frances Prothero, wife of Cambridge academic Sir George Prothero; and Lady Louisa Wolseley, wife of Viscount Garnet Wolseley, commander-in-chief of the British Forces. Susan Gunter's introduction offers a helpful historical overview of nineteenth-century women's roles, a biographical register of people mentioned in the letters, a chronology, and brief biographies of the four women correspondents."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Letters to: Alice Howe Gibbens James, 1878-1915 -- Letters to: Mary Cadwalader Jones, 1883-1915 -- Letters to: Margaret Frances Butcher Prothero, 1906-15 -- Letters to: Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley, 1882-1913.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 288 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Dear munificent friends.".
- catalog identifier "0472110101 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dear munificent friends.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Dear munificent friends.".
- catalog subject "813/.4 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 19th century Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "James, Alice Howe Gibbens Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "James, Henry, 1843-1916 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Jones, Mary Cadwalader Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "PS2123 .A4 1999".
- catalog subject "Prothero, Margaret Frances Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Wolseley, Louisa, viscountess, 1843-1920 Correspondence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Letters to: Alice Howe Gibbens James, 1878-1915 -- Letters to: Mary Cadwalader Jones, 1883-1915 -- Letters to: Margaret Frances Butcher Prothero, 1906-15 -- Letters to: Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley, 1882-1913.".
- catalog title "Dear munificent friends : Henry James's letters to four women / edited by Susan E. Gunter.".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".