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Dangerous intimacy.(Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920)(Book Review)
Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920, by Pamela Thurschwell; Cambridge University Press, 2001, $140.
IN HIS LATER YEARS, Henry James liked to dictate his books to an amanuensis rather than writing them himself. His last secretary was Theodora Bosanquet. They worked well together and Bosanquet remained in James's employment until his death in 1916. She went on to have her own literary career, wrote a memoir of James, books on Harriet Martineau and Paul Valery, and was literary editor of the journal Time and Tide. But in 1933 she found herself taking dictation again, somewhat against her will. James, Meredith, Hardy and Galsworthy, all deceased, ...
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