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Daisy Miller was an immediate and widespread popular success for James, despite some criticism that the story was "an outrage on American girlhood". [5] The story continues to be one of James' most popular works, along with The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady .
Daisy Miller holds a 71% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews. [15] On Metacritic, it has a score of 48%, based on reviews from 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [16] Quentin Tarantino later said "the film starts off a little bizarre. The tone at the beginning is a little off putting. You’re not quite sure if it works.
Writer Henry James was among the authors who popularized the term "New Woman," a figure who was represented in the heroines of his novels—among them the title character of the novella Daisy Miller (serialized 1878) and Isabel Archer in Portrait of a Lady (serialized 1880–81). According to historian Ruth Bordin, the term New Woman was:
Donald Barry Brown (April 19, 1951 – June 25, 1978) [1] was an American author, playwright and actor who performed on stage and in television dramas and feature films, notably as Frederick Winterbourne in Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller (1974), adapted from the classic Henry James novella (1878). Bogdanovich praised Brown's contribution to ...
The Ambassadors, Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James; In the Penal Colony and The Trial by Franz Kafka; The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville; Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading and Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov; The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett; My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad; The Language Police by Diane Ravitch
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The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest.
The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James.It tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her.