The Aspern Papers is a 1888 mezzobula by American author Henry James. - AsNotedIn
I had taken Mrs Prest into my confidence; in truth without her I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot. It is not supposed to be the nature of women to rise as a general thing to the largest and most liberal view - I mean of a practical scheme; but it has struck me that they sometimes throw off a bold conception - such as a man would not have risen to - with singular serenity. "Simply ask them to take you in on the footing of a lodger" - I don't think that unaided I should have risen to that.
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1872/00/00 | Capt Edward A Silsbee | Interloper | Sea captain and Percy Shelley devotee, Edward A Silsbee, visits Claire Clairmont at No 43 on Via Romana in Florence where she lives with her niece Paulina, and becomes her lodger. | Florence | Tuscany | ||
| 1875/00/00 | Claire Clairmont gives Edward Silsbee a copy of "The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley" (London: Moxon, 1870). Clairmont penciled an inscription on the verso of the frontispiece of vol 1. Now in the Pforzheimer Collection at NY Public Library. | New York Public Library | New York City | ||||
| 1879/07/02 | Capt Edward A Silsbee | Interloper | I have been in treaty for the Shelly letters with Miss Clairmont the elder and her niece, and have always understood that I should have the refusal of them if I would give more than any one else offered - Letter to Charles F Murray from Silsbee, Florence | ||||
| 1887/01/00 | Henry James | Author | Henry James hears the story of how Edward Silsbee became a lodger with Claire Clairmont and her niece Paulina in Florence to obtain private letters written by Lord Byron and Percy Shelley. | ||||
| 1887/03/00 | Henry James | Author | In the spring of 1887 while staying in the Villa Brichieri-Colombi on Bellosguardo, Henry James begins writing "The Aspern Papers". James' hostess during his eight month stay is Constance Fenimore Woolson who has a year's lease on the villa. | ||||
| 1888/00/00 | Henry James | Author | Henry James finishes "The Aspern Papers" while staying in Venice at the Palazzo Barbaro, a villa owned by Daniel and Ariana Curtis. The desk that Henry James wrote at is still in the Palazzo Barbaro. | Palazzi Barbaro, Venice | Venice | ||
| 1888/03/00 | Henry James | Author | "The Aspern Papers" by Henry James is published, the first of three serial instalments, in The Atlantic Monthly. | ||||
| 1888/04/00 | The Atlantic Monthly | Publisher | The second of three installments of "The Aspern Papers" by Henry James is published in The Atlantic Monthly. | ||||
| 1888/05/00 | The third and last installment of "The Aspern Papers" by Henry James is published in The Atlantic Monthly. |
| Particulars for The Aspern Papers (book): | |||
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Human Attribute | Countenance | a person's face or facial expression | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Plants | Flowers | ||
| Boat Type | Gondola | a light flat-bottomed boat used on Venetian canals, having a high point at each end and worked by one oar at the stern | |
| Narrative Arts | Mezzobula | medium form fiction narrative that is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Occupation | Poet | a person who writes poetry, a literary form that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic language | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Attribute | Queer | strange, odd | |
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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