James, Henry

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1. An American author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. James is known for his novels, such as The Turn of the Screw and Portrait of a Lady.

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The philosopher and psychologist William James was Henry James's brother.

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Then there’s James Henry Leigh Hunt, the 19th-century English poet and political journalist who was imprisoned for the crime of observing that the Prince Regent, later King George IV, was, among other things, a “corpulent gentleman of fifty.”

From The Wall Street Journal

By the 1830s, elected officials such as James Henry Hammond could claim in the halls of Congress that American slavery retained the “advantages” of “the aristocracy of the old world,” adding that “slavery does indeed create an aristocracy — an aristocracy of talents, of virtue, of generosity and courage. In a slave country, every freeman is an aristocrat.”

From Salon

For Burton, the show unearthed the secret that his great-great-grandmother on his mother’s side, Mary Sills, was actually the biological daughter of a white farmer named James Henry Dixon.

From Salon

Her biological father was a man named James Henry Dixon, a white farmer who was married with several children.

From Los Angeles Times

After the earl died, others followed, including George Jay Gould, an American financier who succumbed to pneumonia shortly after visiting the tomb in 1923; Sir Archibald Douglas Reid, who perished soon after X-raying the mummy in London; and James Henry Breasted, an American archaeologist, who lived until 1935 but died of an infection following his final trip to Egypt.

From Washington Post