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Summary. After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie - solitary, observant and wise beyond her years - is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is ...
What Maisie Knew Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1 - 6. Summary. What Maisie Knew. Before Chapter 1, Henry James includes a short chapter titled "What Maisie Knew." In this chapter, James gives the background of the situation that will play out over the course of the novel. A newly divorced couple, Beale and Ida Farange, are squabbling in ...
Abstract. What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself ...
1 de mai. de 2013 · On the second page of What Maisie Knew, Henry James' 1897 novel about the divorce of two wretchedly selfish people and the effect it has on their young daughter Maisie, an acquaintance expresses sympathy for the girl. "The words were an epitaph for the tomb of Maisie's childhood," James writes, and the novel's events go downhill from there. James didn't pull his punches, and (except for ...
Summary. Chapter 13. Sir Claude continues to take Maisie on outings—those specifically mentioned at the beginning of this chapter are the National Gallery and a cafe on Baker Street. As they visit sites together, Sir Claude and Maisie have candid, mature conversations about the nature of Sir Claude's relationships with Ida and Mrs. Beale.
What Maisie Knew is an 1897 novel by American/British author Henry James. The story was first published in The Chap-Book and the New Review, two prominent American literary magazines of the time. The protagonist of the book is Maisie, a young girl whose parents are divorced. The book follows her growth and development over the course of many ...
Miss Overmore (Mrs. Beale) One of Maisie's governesses. She is initially described as being well-mannered and educated as well as highly beautiful. However, her character drastically changes when she marries Beale and engages in an affair with Sir Claude; her more calculating and opportunistic side comes out.
