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Maisie has learned a great deal during her short life but not from tutors or books. She has learned much about the dynamics among self-interested and narcissistic adults. When Maisie and her governess Mrs. Wix leave France to return to London with each other at the end of the book, Mrs. Wix gives Maisie a sidelong glance and has to wonder "what ...
Summary. What Maisie Knew is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English upper-class society. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks. After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered ...
Chapter. Summary. Chapters 1–3. Maisie's parents Beale Farange and Ida Farange have divorced with animosity. They divide their daughter's time equally b... Read More. Chapters 4–5. Maisie meets the governess she will have at her mother's. Maisie's mother quickly hands her over to the governess Mrs. W...
5 de set. de 2023 · Summary. Last Updated September 5, 2023. "The Art of Fiction" is Henry James's attempt to rebuke the claims made in Sir Walter Besant's lecture "Fiction as One of the Fine Arts." Besant argued ...
12 de mar. de 2003 · Maisie knew above all that though she was now, by what she called an informal understanding, on Sir Claude's "side," she had yet not uttered a word to him about Mr. Perriam. That gentleman became therefore a kind of flourishing public secret, out of the depths of which governess and pupil looked at each other portentously from the time their friend was restored to them.
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each. The parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie to intensify their hatred of each other. (Summary by Wikipedia.) (8 hr 50 min)
As the novel nears its conclusion, Maisie, now in France, hesitates, torn between her stepparents and Mrs. Wix. But, in the end, her conscience is her guide, and—spoiler alert!—she chooses the straight and narrow (if unglamorous) Mrs. Wix. This good governess marvels, in the novel's last words, "at what Maisie knew" (XXXI.154).
