Everyman's Library Classics Series: The Bostonians : Introduction by Christopher Butler (Hardcover)

from gwendolynzepeda

This book made me so angry that I almost had an aneurism. Then I calmed down and realized anew Mr. James' talent for depicting brilliant women in abusive romances, and I loved him anew for understanding what a scary tragedy that situation is.

from ocgreg34

Olive Chancellor, a confirmed old maid (at the age of 30), desires nothing more than to see the day when women will earn the right to vote, just as the men do. She attends many lectures and salons of Boston, listening to the great ladies of her day espousing the virtues of allowing women the righ...

from hemlokgang

Audiobook.....Surprisingly radical! This is a metaphorical story about the tug of war between men and women. A native Mississippian strives to conquer a lovely young feminist reformer in post Civil War Boston. I say conquer, because to succumb to him means forever relinquishing her right to expre...

from Lady_Lazarus

Most of all: boring. This time Henry James didn't even succeed in manipulating the reader (or just me?) to feel anxiety on behalf of the characters. I was left wondering whether this was a failed satire or not, because the themes of emancipation were brushed aside as if the male narrator didn't k...

from corinneblackmer

 This is my least favorite of all of James' novels. He descends into his worst impulses towards misogyny, self-lacerating homophobia, and anti-Americanism in his supposed design to tell a tale of American manners and the triumph of the Old South over Puritan New England.