"Henry James seems most entirely in his element,……" — Virginia Woolf

"Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that"

— Virginia Woolf

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