Henry James, The Pupil

Neil Chilton (University of Bristol)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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First circulation or publication 1891

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A tender, poignant, often darkly humorous story of a young tutor’s relationship with the remarkable child of a disreputable family, Henry James’s “The Pupil” was rejected for publication by the first editor to whom its author sent it. Horace Scudder of the

Atlantic Monthly

had written to James in the summer of 1890 inviting him to send the magazine some new short stories; however, “The Pupil”, the first of these pieces, composed during August and September of that year, was felt by Scudder to be “lacking in interest, in precision and in effectiveness”, this unexpected rejection giving James, he declared in his reply of 10 November, “the shock of a perfectly honest surprise” (Monteiro, p. 79, cited in Horne, p. 129;

Henry James: Letters

, III, p. 307). “The Pupil”…

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Citation: Chilton, Neil. "The Pupil". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 December 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=20115, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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