Portrait of a Lady | Henry James

Elizabeth, an American girl, beloved and cultured but poor, is suddenly blessed with a fortune from the sky, making her a target for wealth hunters. What will she do? Henry James, an English novelist and critic of American origin, born in 1843 in New York to a wealthy family and died in 1916, read in his youth English, American, French, and German literature and European works. He participated in editing many monthly magazines such as Atlantic Monthly. He is considered the founder and leader of the school of realistic literature, and believed that the novel art depends on rich impressions that feed the writer's imagination from the surrounding environment. He wrote more than 24 long novels such as Daisy Miller, Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, Washington Square, and a very large number of letters and literary lectures. Henry James became famous in his novels for depicting the meeting of America and Europe through his fictional characters, as well as his exquisite use of monologue or internal dialogue of the characters, as we will see in the novel The Portrait of a Lady or The Picture of a Lady, which was turned into a film of the same title in 1996 starring Nicole Kidman and received many awards.