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James was born on April 15, 1843 in New York City into a family of wealth and intellect. His father, Henry James, Sr., was a leading theologian of the time and friends with Emerson and Thoreau; his older brother, William, would become an important figure in psychology and philosophy; and his sister, Alice, would later become famous as a diarist.
Henry James Sr. >. Quotes. > Quotable Quote. (?) “Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural ...
18 de jan. de 2022 · Drawing on inherited wealth, their parents, religious philosopher Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James, raised their family in a peripatetic fashion that revolved, by the time James was twenty-one, through New York City, Newport (Rhode Island), and Boston, and three European sojourns in England, France, Switzerland, and Germany (1843–1845, 1855–1858, and 1859–1860).
Henry James nacque da una ricca famiglia di intellettuali: sua madre, Mary Walsh e suo padre, Henry James Sr., era un grande teologo e filosofo con l'interesse per la letteratura e la sua vivacità intellettuale si rifletteva grandemente sull'atmosfera familiare.
2 de mar. de 2011 · He came from a distinguished background: his father, Henry James Sr. (b. 1811–d. 1882), was a man of independent means, a religious philosopher and a writer; his elder brother William (b. 1842–d. 1910) became one of the most well-known American philosophers of the century; and his sister Alice (b. 1848–d. 1892) was a diarist.
1 de jan. de 1994 · 7 ratings2 reviews. A biography of the passionate, contradictory father of William, Henry and Alice James. The author counters the popular view that Henry James, Sr. was a "benignant" man who devoted himself to the good of his children, preached tolerance, and practised self-effacement. Genres Biography Nonfiction. 600 pages, Paperback.
Books. The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. Alfred Habegger. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 578 pages. Henry James, Sr.'s children included William, the psychologist and philosopher; Henry Jr., the novelist; and Alice, author of a noted diary. What kind of father stood behind his epochally brilliant, original ...
