Volume 54, Number 12 · July 19, 2007

Creating 'The Portrait of a Lady'

By Colm Tóibín

A specter haunted Henry James: it was the specter of George Eliot. He visited her first in 1869, when he was twenty-six, and wrote to his father:



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