31–32
literary history of, 34
local color and regionalism in, 129, 178, 246
novel of manners and, 26
The Portrait of a Lady as, xvii
realist, 25–26
romances in, 36, 69
sentimental, 25
William Dean Howells on, 26
analytical method of characterization, 242–43
Andersen, Hendrik, xxii, 88, 297–98, 299, 304, 328
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 113, 271, 303, 332
Anne, Queen of England, 99
Antietam, Battle of, 19
Archer, Isabel (char.), xv, xvii, 8, 81, 85–86, 103, 121, 131, 149, 151, 171–72, 173, 196, 198, 207, 214, 243, 244, 310–17, 321
American newness of, 270
appearance of, 7
character of, 6–11, 66–67, 75, 105–6, 115, 116–17, 242
clothes conversation of, 113–15, 163
as desiring to depart from past, 114
elements of HJ in, 50, 270
Europe’s meaning to, 126, 223
George Eliot’s influence on, 66
Gilbert Osmond’s fascination for, 134–37, 155–59, 162–64, 276, 311, 328, 329
Gilbert Osmond’s restrictions on, 162–64, 225, 230–31, 232–33, 234, 238, 269, 273, 274–75, 313, 325, 326
independence of, 4, 6, 51–54, 71, 75–76, 158, 161, 163, 223, 252, 315, 329–30
inner life of, 9, 175, 311, 313, 334
as a “lady,” 10–11, 224
limits on freedom of, xviii–xix, 69, 76, 111–12, 223–24, 238, 270–73, 277–79, 283, 295, 326–27
marriage of, 136, 159–61, 164, 166, 214, 221, 222–38, 271–77, 303–4
marriage plot resisted by, xviii, 9, 69–76, 106–7, 109, 112, 113, 157, 160
Minny Temple as original of, 27, 46–50
power of knowledge for, 279
Ralph Touchett’s bequest to, 110–11, 114, 125, 134, 137, 162, 225, 272–73, 279, 316–17, 327
Ralph Touchett’s relationship with, 50–51, 54
reactions of others to, 6–7
reflections on married life by, 229–38
return to Rome by, 327–34
in Rome, 141–43, 149, 150, 174, 222, 225–26, 269–70, 271, 312, 325
sadness of, 213, 269, 271, 324–25
separation considered by, 273, 333
sexual desire of, 234–36, 237–38, 327–30
spontaneity and individuality of, 6, 67, 271
on taste vs. wealth, 137
travels of, 161
as voice of American exceptionalism, 114–15
Arno, 122, 126, 149
Arnold, Matthew, 158, 210
Arthur, Chester A., 259
“Art of Fiction, The” (Besant), 246
Aspects of the Novel (Forster), 248–49
Asquith, H. H., 323
Assommoir, L’ (Zola), 39, 200–201, 252
Athenaeum, 79, 97–98
Athenaeum, 220
Athens, 180
Atlanta Constitution, 220
Atlantic Monthly, xiv, xix, 13, 23, 25, 37, 98, 129, 130, 199, 265, 305
“Contributors’ Club” in, 210, 218, 250
HJ serialized in, 24, 34, 43, 44, 71, 100, 101, 103, 104, 130, 166, 173, 208–13, 215, 217–21, 222, 284
The Portrait of a Lady reviewed in, 241
Austen, Jane, 5, 35, 57, 68, 72, 75, 192, 234
Austria, 166
autocracy, 315
Avignon, 166
Baden-Baden, 39
Bad Nauheim, 320
Baedeker, 147, 166
Bakunin, Mikhail, 126
Baldwin, William, 183
Balzac, Honoré de, 35, 52, 58, 68, 98, 113, 192, 314–15
Barberini, Colonel, 145
Barings Bank, 49
Bayreuth, 92, 93, 94
Beerbohm, Max, 300
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 111
Belgium, 322, 323
Bellosguardo, 122, 133, 135, 138, 226, 277
Bennett, Arnold, 290
Benson, A. C., xxii
Berlin, 80
Besant, Walter, 246
Bien Public, La, 200–201
bigamy, 195
“Birthmark, The” (Hawthorne), 315
Bismarck, Otto von, 33
Blackmur, R. P., 318
Blackwood’s, 194, 241–42, 244, 331
Bleak House (Dickens), 68, 131, 215, 216, 218
Boboli Gardens, 121
Bologna, 126
Boott, Elizabeth (Lizzie), 41, 123, 128, 131, 138, 148, 176, 180, 321
Boott, Frank, 123, 128, 131, 138–39, 148, 176, 180, 182, 183, 321
Bosanquet, Theodora, 88, 101, 310, 312, 321, 324
Boston, Mass., xv, 18, 23, 37, 40, 93, 150, 209, 210, 240, 257, 258, 259, 260, 263, 265, 281,
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Margaret Yorke
Jonathon Burgess
David Lubar
Krystal Shannan, Camryn Rhys
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