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,Singers, Writers and Storytellers in Cather’s America,ly column, ‘The Passing Show’, which she continued for seven years. At 21, the age when Henry James published his first critical essay, in the ., she was establishing her reputation as one of the foremost western drama critics, ‘in production and distinction the equal of metropolitan critics’.

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, and , in James’s Criticism and Fiction, imagination — shows in James’s fiction, as in Howells’s, the degree to which language reinforces or reflects the kinds of power men and women exercise in their private relationships and within the social order. Finally, James’s lifelong concern to define what is masculine and what is feminine in sp

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, and , in James’s Criticism and Fiction,upied him from the beginning of his career. For 40 years, in England and America, he was an inveterate observer of cultural signs, including language. At clubs, hotels, dinner parties and country houses he listened to men and women talk; he noted the habits of speech of different social classes and

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,Singers, Writers and Storytellers in Cather’s America,says while still in her teens; by the age of 20 she too was a regular contributor to the leading newspaper of a Western state. During the winter of 1893–94, when she was a junior at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, she became the regular drama critic for the . and began publishing there a week