The Dead and the Undead
James, who was both a prolific writer of ghost stories and a staunch Victorian, dramatically equates divorce with death early on in Maisie, when the narrator refers to Ida as Beale's "late wife" (P...
The Vessel
Here's another image from James's preface that does important work when it comes to setting the tone for the book as a whole: What was clear to any spectator was that the only link binding [Maisie]...