As Mrs. Touchett had foretold, Isabel and Madame Merle were thrown much together during the illness of their host, and if they had not become intimate it would have been almost a breach of good ...

The parterre garden of the Beauregard-Keyes House in New Orleans' famed French Quarter is a symphony of formal simplicity. One of the most romantic and fascinating old houses in a city which boasts of ...

Clothes and the culture wars. In Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, idealistic Isabel Archer gets into an argument with her more worldly companion, Madame Merle, about clothes. Madame Merle is of the ...

A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics. ON one of the first days of May, some six months after old Mr. Touchett’s death, a picturesque little group was gathered in one of the many rooms ...