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Two ladies lost in the mist
From: The Spectator
Date: 19981219
Author:Sumption, Jonathan
A PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY JAMES
by Lyndall Gordon Chatto, 20, pp. 500
Lyndall Gordon has had the peculiar idea of writing a life of Henry James arranged around two friendships of which almost nothing is known. Mary (Minny) Temple was a cousin of James's, a beautiful, vivacious, rather frail orphan from upstate New York who died of tuberculosis in 1870 at the age of 24. Constance Fenimore Woolson, a niece of the frontier yarnspinner James Fenimore Cooper, was a tough American virgin who settled, like James, in Europe, where she kept herself by writing popular novels which were once read, and ...
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