title: A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art
author:  Lyndall Gordon 
description: In this beautifully written, eye-opening biography, Lyndall Gordon, author of Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life, provides a remarkable portrait of two strongly individual women and their lasting influence on Henry James.
zlib_text: Henry James
  THE COMPLETE
  SUPERNATURAL STORIES
  
  Table of Contents
  THE ROMANCE OF CERTAIN OLD CLOTHES
  DE GREY: A ROMANCE
  THE LAST OF THE VALERII
  THE GHOSTLY RENTAL
  SIR EDMUND ORME
  NONA VINCENT
  SIR DOMINICK FERRAND
  OWEN WINGRAVE
  THE PRIVATE LIFE
  THE ALTAR OF THE DEAD
  THE WAY IT CAME
  THE TURN OF THE SCREW
  THE REAL RIGHT THING
  THE THIRD PERSON
  THE GREAT GOOD PLACE
  MAUD-EVELYN
  THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE
  THE JOLLY CORNER
  
  The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
  (1868)
  Towards the middle of the eighteenth century there lived in the
  Province of Massachusetts a widowed gentlewoman, the mother of three
  children, by name Mrs. Veronica Wingrave. She had lost her husband early in
  life, and had devoted herself to the care of her progeny. These young persons
  grew up in a manner to reward her tenderness and to gratify her highest
  hopes. The first-born was a son, whom she had called Bernard, after his
  father. The others were daughters — born at an interval of three years apart.
  Good looks were traditional in th