Mutual Admirers Henry James and Oscar Wilde Should Never Have Met
Henry James Thought Oscar Wilde Was a Talentless Self-Promoter. Here's What Happened When The Two Met. Hulton Archive/Getty Images On January 8, 1882, Henry James, visiting Washington from his home in London, wrote this in a letter to a friend in Britain: I believe that Washington is the place in the world where money—or the absence of it, matters least. It is very queer and yet extremely pleasant: informal, familiar, heterogeneous, good-natured, essentially social and conversational, enormously big and yet extremely provincial, indefinably ridiculous and yet eminently agreeable…. The sky...
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