Henry James called Death “the Distinguished Thing”.
James used the phrase when he said “so it has come at last, the Distinguished Thing” after suffering a stroke on December 2, 1915, two months before his death in 1916.
Isabel Archer’s stepdaughter in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady was Pansy. Her father, Isabel’s husband, is Gilbert Osmond; her mother is Madame Merle.
The Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby (1838-390) exposed the “ragged schools” and helped get them abolished.
The story “Wedding Preparations in the Country” (1907) by Franz Kafka seems to directly foreshadow Gregor Samsa’s plight, as a train passenger lying in bed imagines himself as a giant bug.
Father Ambrosio, of Madrid is the name of the title character in The Monk. He kills two women who turn out to be his mother, Elvira, and his sister, Antonia, in the 1795 novel by Matthew Lewis. Father Ambrosio, of Madrid. He kills two women who turn out to be his mother, Elvira, and his…
In Charles Dickens’s 1847-48 novel of that name, Dombey and Son was a shipping firm.
Henry Miller was married four times.