A Study Guide for Henry James's "Wings of the Dove"
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The Wings of the Dove
Henry James
1902
Introduction
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a classic story, a simple one, really, in which lovers are victims of the sorrows and inequities of life and are at the same time perpetrators of harm to each other. One of James's later novels, published in 1902, this morality tale is widely acclaimed as his most brilliant work. It is tied to two of his other novels written in the same time period, The Golden Bowl (1904) and The Ambassadors (1903), which also deal with the psychology of the cruelty of humanity and the struggle to find one's conscience.
This is the love story of Kate Croy and Merton Densher. They are beautiful but poor, although Kate has access to London high society through her Aunt Maud. Into the lives of these characters enters Milly Theale, a young American heiress who is gravely ill. Her naive and innocent presence brings with it the opportunity for charity or for treachery from the worldly and clever Kate and Densher.
The character Milly is based on Minny Temple, James's young cousin to whom he felt an immense attachment. Her death at the young age of twenty-four affected him deeply, and he reveals in his autobiography that the image of her death remained with him for a long time. Her influence on his life and works is seen especially in James's later works; but she appears as early as 1881 as Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady.
The language and construction of The Wings of the Dove can be difficult to maneuver and some determination and desire is required to understand James's long passages, the ambiguity of his descriptions, and the importance of the silences of his characters in order to know them. The experience of mastering the elusive and rich text is satisfying beyond expectation.
Author Biography
Henry James was born on April 15, 1843, on Washington Place in New York City to Mary Robertson Walsh James and Henry James, Sr. His father was from a wealthy family and was a noted intellectual and theologian who was well known among the most influential writers and philosophers of the time. The Jameses had five children whom they tutored in several languages and in literature.
After attending Harvard Law School for a short time when he was nineteen, the young Henry realized that he was better suited for writing than for studying law. He published his first short story, A Tragedy of Error,
in 1864 and also became a writer for the literary magazine the Atlantic Monthly. His first novel, Watch and Ward, was published as a serial in the magazine in 1871 and in book form in 1878.
James moved to Europe in 1875, and his book Roderick Hudson was published the next year in 1876.