5/29/2023 0 Comments Washington square by henry james![]() ![]() As a result the James children received very erratic educations and Henry Jr. His family led a very cosmopolitan lifestyle, traveling quite a bit to the fashionable cities of Europe. His mother, Mary Robertson Walsh James, was from a wealthy upstate family and was a devoted wife and mother to five children. to pursue an intellectual career and he wrote and lectured on a variety of theological matters. It was this windfall that allowed Henry James Sr. His family’s affluence was due to his paternal grandfather’s sizeable fortune, which had been split among his children, including James’ father, Henry James Senior. Henry James was born on Apto a wealthy family at 21 Washington Place. Though Henry James is one of the few Americans memorialized in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey in England, Greenwich Village’s impact on him and his literature was indelible. ![]() ![]() Spending his childhood on Washington Place, in the refined and sophisticated Greenwich Village, he would write a novel a few years after moving to London entitled Washington Square in 1881. ![]() Though he later made England his home, the memory of his early life in Manhattan would reflect in his writing throughout his life. A prolific writer with an expansive range, Henry James traced his Victorian gentility and class-consciousness from his upbringing in mid-19 th century Greenwich Village. ![]()
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