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An interesting bit of trivia is the choice that the story ends in Boulogne where James as a young teenager suffered a severe illness and associated with his own transition into adulthood.
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In his 5 volume biography of HJ, Leon Edel theorizes that James explored, and perhaps exorcised, the painful passages in his growth and emotional maturation through the young female characters in his novels. Edel delicately tiptoes around James' purported homosexuality in his analysis, but firmly identifies James's youthful personality and experiences, especially traumatic occurrences, in the life events and thoughts of young women and female children in Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady, Washington Square, The Bostonians, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse, The Other House, and What Maisie Knew.
If you want a really chilling read about the fate of a young girl, give
The Other House a try - in which the fight over a girl child results in .... murder!