Name/Title
The Portrait of a Lady / Henry James, Jr.Entry/Object ID
2015.7.168Description
520 pages.
Following the death of her father, Isabel Archer leaves the comforts of Albany, New York to stay with her aunt Lydia Touchett at her London estate. There she meets Lydia's rich husband, David, her cousin Ralph, and the Touchetts' proud neighbor, Lord Warburton. Soon, too, come marriage proposals from Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, the son of a wealthy mill owner. Although Isabel declines both offers, she eventually gives her hand to Gilbert Osmond, an American ex-pat in Florence.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, 1890sBook Details
Author
Henry JamesEdition
ReprintPublisher
Houghton, Mifflin & CompanyPlace Published
City
BostonState/Province
MassachusettsCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1881Printer
Riverside PressBinding
Binding Type
Publisher's BindingBinding Designer
Sarah Wyman WhitmanBinding Notes
Attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman. Bound in olive green fine-ribbed cloth with the title enclosed in an oval central medallion within a single ruled border. Boston Public Library shows the same design for "Spoils of Poynton" by Henry James.Exhibition
Lobby Case Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
