(I) Works by Alice James, Henry James, Edith Wharton and Constance Fenimore WoolsonAlice JamesThe Death and Letters of Alice James, ed. and intro. Yeazell, Ruth Bernard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981)
The Diary of Alice James, ed. Edel, Leon (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982)
Henry JamesThe Ambassadors (1903), 2 vols. (New York: Scribners, 1909)
The American (1877) (New York: Scribners, 1907)
The Aspern Papers (1888), in The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw, The Liar, The Two Faces (New York: Scribners, 1908)
‘The Author of Beltraffio’ (1884), in The Author of Beltraffio, The Middle Years, Greville Fane, and Other Tales (New York: Scribners, 1909)
The Awkward Age (1899) (New York 1908) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966)
‘The Beast in the Jungle’ (1903), in The Altar of the Dead, The Beast in the Jungle, The Birthplace, and Other Tales (New York: Scribners, 1909)
The Bostonians (1886), in Henry James: Novels 1881–1886 (New York: Library of America, 1985)
The Complete Notebooks of Henry James, ed. and intro. Edel, Leon and Powers, Lyall H. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
The Complete Plays of Henry James, ed. Edel, Leon (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949)
Essays in London and Elsewhere (London: J. R. Osgood, 1893)
The Europeans (1878) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964)
The Golden Bowl (1904) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981)
Henry James: A Life in Letters, ed. Horne, Philip (Harmondsworth: Lane-Penguin, 1999)
Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters 1900–1915, ed. Powers, Lyall H., (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990)
Henry James: Essays on Art and Drama, ed. Rawlings, Peter (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996)
Henry James Letters, ed. Edel, Leon, 4 vols. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974–84)
Henry James: Selected Letters, ed. Edel, Leon (Cambridge, MA: Belknap-Harvard, 1987)
‘In the Cage’ (1898), intro. Libby Purves (London: Hesperus, 2002)
‘The Ivory Tower’ (n.d.) (London and Glasgow: Collins)
‘John S. Sargent’, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 75: 449 (October 1887), pp. 683–91
‘The Jolly Corner’ (1908), in The Altar of the Dead, The Beast in the Jungle, The Birthplace, and Other Tales (New York: Scribners, 1909)
‘My Friend Bingham’ (1867), in Eight Uncollected Tales of Henry James, ed. and intro. Kenton, Edna (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1950)
Partial Portraits (London: Macmillan, 1888; rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970)
The Portrait of a Lady (1881) (New York 1908) (Penguin: Harmondsworth, 1967)
The Princess Casamassima (1886), 2 vols. (New York: Scribners, 1908)
‘The Private Life’ (1892), in The Altar of the Dead, The Beast in the Jungle, The Birthplace, and Other Tales (New York: Scribners, 1909)
‘The Pupil’ (1891), in What Maisie Knew, In the Cage, The Pupil (New York: Scribners, 1908)
The Reverberator (1888), in The Reverberator, Madame de Mauves, and Other Tales (New York: Scribners, 1908)
Roderick Hudson (1875) (New York: Scribners, 1907)
The Sacred Fount (1901) (Penguin: Harmondsworth, 1994)
The Scenic Art: Notes on Acting and the Drama, 1872–1901, ed. and intro. Wade, Allan, Edel, foreword Leon (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949)
The Sense of the Past (New York: Scribners, 1917)
The Spoils of Poynton (1897) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971)
Theatre and Friendship: Some Henry James Letters, ed., intro. and commentary Robins, Elizabeth (London: Jonathan Cape, 1932)
The Tragic Muse (1890), (New York 1908), intro. Horne, Philip (London: Penguin, 1995)
The Turn of the Screw (1898), in The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw, The Liar, The Two Faces (New York: Scribners, 1908)
‘The Velvet Glove’ (1909), in The Complete Tales of Henry James, ed. and intro. Edel, Leon, 12 vols., XII (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964)
Washington Square (1880) (New York: Harper, 1881)
What Maisie Knew (1897), in What Maisie Knew, In the Cage, The Pupil (New York: Scribners, 1908)
The Wings of the Dove (1902), (New York 1909) (London: Penguin, 1986)
Edith WhartonA Backward Glance (1934), in Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings, ed. Wolff, Cynthia Griffin (New York: Library of America, 1990)
Bunner Sisters (1892), in Madame de Treymes and Others: Four Novelettes (New York: Scribners, 1970)
The Decoration of Houses (1897) (New York: Scribners, 1917)
Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings, ed. Wegener, Frederick (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)
French Ways and Their Meaning (London: Macmillan, 1919)
The Fruit of the Tree, intro. French, Marilyn (London: Virago, 1984)
‘The Fulness of Life’, Scribner's Magazine 14 (July–December 1893), pp. 699–704
The Greater Inclination (London: The Bodley Head, 1899)
Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters 1900–1915, ed. Lyall, H. Powers (London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1990)
The House of Mirth (1905), in Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome (London: Chancellor, 1994)
The Letters of Edith Wharton, ed. Lewis, R. W. B. and Lewis, Nancy (London: Simon & Schuster, 1988)
Life and I [n.d.], in Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings, ed. Wolff, Cynthia Griffin (New York: Library of America, 1990)
The Stories of Edith Wharton, sel. and intro. Brookner, Anita, 2 vols. (London: Simon & Schuster, 1988–9)
Constance Fenimore WoolsonAnne (1882) (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883)
Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1875)
Constance Fenimore Woolson, Constance Fenimore Woolson, arr. and ed. Benedict, Clare (London: Ellis, 1932) to William Wilberforce Baldwin: Baldwin Collection, MA 3564; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Constance Fenimore Woolson, Constance Fenimore Woolson, arr. and ed. Benedict, Clare (London: Ellis, 1932) to John Hay and Clara Hay: Alice Hall Petry, ‘ “Always, Your Attached Friend”: The Unpublished Letters of Constance Fenimore Woolson to John and Clara Hay’, Books at Brown 29–30 (1982–3), pp. 11–107
Constance Fenimore Woolson, Constance Fenimore Woolson, arr. and ed. Clare Benedict (London: Ellis, 1932) to HJ, Henry James Letters, ed. Edel, Leon, 4 vols. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974–84), III (1980)
Constance Fenimore Woolson, Constance Fenimore Woolson, arr. and ed. Benedict, Clare (London: Ellis, 1932) to Samuel Mather and others; CWB to SM and others: Samuel Mather Family Papers, MSS # 3735, containers 23–4; Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH
Constance Fenimore Woolson, Constance Fenimore Woolson, arr. and ed. Benedict, Clare (London: Ellis, 1932) to E. C. Stedman: Special Collections, Spec. MS Coll. Stedman [Edmund Clarence]; Rare Books and Manuscripts Room, Butler Library, Columbia University
Constance Fenimore Woolson, arr. and ed. Benedict, Clare (London: Ellis, 1932)
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Women Artists, Women Exiles: ‘“Miss Grief”’ and Other Stories, ed. and intro. Weimer, Joan Myers (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1988)
‘Dorothy’, and Other Italian Stories (New York: Harper, 1896)
East Angels (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1886)
Horace Chase (New York: Harper, 1894)
Jupiter Lights (New York: Harper, 1889)
Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (New York: Appleton, 1880)
(III) Secondary sourcesAgnew, Jean-Christophe, ‘The Consuming Vision of Henry James’, in Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears (eds.), The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880–1980 (New York: Pantheon, 1983)
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Bell, Michael Davitt, The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993)
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Benstock, Shari, No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton (New York: Scribners, 1994)
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Bentley, Nancy, The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Blair, Sara, Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Booth, Michael R., Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850–1910 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981)
Boudreau, Kristin, ‘“A Barnum Monstrosity”: Alice James and the Spectacle of Sympathy’, American Literature 65 (March 1993), pp. 53–67
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Butler, Judith, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’ (New York and London: Routledge, 1993)
Butler, Judith,Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York and London: Routledge, 1990)
Cannon, Kelly, Henry James and Masculinity: The Man at the Margins (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994)
Cixous, Hélène, and Clément, Catherine, The Newly Born Woman, trans. Betsy Wing, intro. Sandra M. Gilbert (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986); orig. pub. as La Jeune née (Paris: Union Générale d'Editions, 1975)
Clément, Catherine, ‘Enclave Esclave’, trans. Marilyn R. Schuster, in Marks, Elaine and Courtivron, Isabelle (eds. and intro.), New French Feminisms: An Anthology (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1981), pp. 130–6
Coates, Paul, The Realist Fantasy: Fiction and Reality since ‘Clarissa’ (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1983)
Corbett, Mary Jean, Representing Femininity: Middle-Class Subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian Women's Autobiographies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Coulson, Victoria, ‘Sticky Realism: Armchair Hermeneutics in Late James’, The Henry James Review 25 (2004), pp. 115–26
Davis, Tracy C., Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (London: Routledge, 1991)
Dean, Sharon L., Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton: Perspectives on Landscape and Art (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002)
Dean, Sharon L.,Constance Fenimore Woolson: Homeward Bound (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995)
DiBattista, Maria, and McDiarmid, Lucy (eds.), High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889–1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Dimock, Wai Chee, ‘Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth’, in Singley, Carol J. (ed.), Edith Wharton's ‘The House of Mirth’: A Casebook (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 63–84
Douglas, Ann, The Feminization of American Culture (New York: Knopf, 1977)
Dwight, Eleanor, Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994)
Edel, Leon, Henry James, 5 vols. (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953–72)
Edel, Leon,Henry James: A Life (London: Collins, 1985)
Edel, Leon,Some Memories of Edith Wharton (New York: G. Horowitz, 1993)
Erlich, Gloria C., The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
Ermath, Elizabeth Deeds, Realism and Consensus in the English Novel: Time, Space and Narrative (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998)
Faderman, Lillian, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (London: Women's Press, 1981)
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Felski, Rita,The Gender of Modernity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995)
Fetterley, Judith, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978)
Finney, Gail, Women in Modern Drama: Freud, Feminism, and European Theater at the Turn of the Century (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989)
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Freedman, Jonathan L.,Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990)
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Fryer, Judith, Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986)
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Gubar, Susan, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979)
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Gordon, Lyndall, A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998)
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Habegger, Alfred, Henry James and the ‘Woman Business’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
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Herndl, Diane Price, Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840–1940 (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993)
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Hughes, Clair, Henry James and the Art of Dress (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
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