Publications
A Private Life of Henry James, by Lyndall Gordon, published 2 September 1999 (xi + 500 pp., London: Vintage, ISBN-10: 0099386119 & ISBN-13: 9780099386117) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Lyndall Gordon investigates the writer's relations with two remarkable women who were close to him, and traces their effect and influence in his work. Both these women haunted James, his elusive friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson, who died in 1894, echoed his mysterious relationship with Minnie Temple, who died twenty years earlier.
Henry James: His Women and His Art, by Lyndall Gordon, published 1 November 2012 (xiii + 528 pp., London: Virago, ISBN-10: 1844088928 & ISBN-13: 9781844088928) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:James's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson ended in 1894 when he tried to drown a boatload of her dresses in the Venetian lagoon; she had fallen to her death three months before. It was an elusive friendship that echoed his mysterious relationship with Minny Temple who had died twenty years earlier. From their graves, these two women haunted his imagination and his fiction, inspiring the creation of his heroines.