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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Henry James
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(1843–1916) American novelist who from 1876 lived most of his life in England, becoming naturalized in 1915 as a gesture of solidarity in World War I. Well travelled himself, his recurring theme was the interaction between Europe and Americans (in the earlier novels young American women in particular). He treated his material in fine analytical detail, causing him now to be seen as a precursor of modern introspective fiction but provoking Mrs Henry Adams (wife of the American historian) to complain that his problem was not so much biting off more than he could chew as chewing more than he had bitten off. Lamb House, where he lived 1898–1916 in Rye, Sussex, is kept partly as a museum.
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