Authors: Henry James
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Classics, #Literary, #Women's Fiction, #Contemporary Women, #Contemporary Fiction, #Literary Fiction
The Bostonians (66 page)
Atlantic Ocean inlet in southeastern Massachusetts that extends to the base of the Cape Cod peninsula.
Oil painting (c.1513) by Raphael that depicts the Madonna and Child floating on clouds. It is now in Dresden, Germany.
Also the title of an 1883 novel by William Dean Howells, a close friend of Henry James.
House constructed of wood.
Town in eastern Massachusetts at the northern tip of Cape Cod; in the nineteenth century, an active whaling and fishing port.
One who poses (French; here, referring to a female); a show-off.
That’s all I need! (French).
Passages or openings in an ancient amphitheater leading to or from the seats.
Pagan Egyptian Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician (A.D. 370-415); she was killed by a fanatical Christian mob.
