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The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi ; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena ...
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The Bostonians is a 1984 historical romance drama film directed by James Ivory. The screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is based on the 1886 American novel The Bostonians by Henry James. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Madeleine Potter, and Jessica Tandy. The Bostonians was released in the United States on 2 August ...
The Bostonians, satirical novel by Henry James, published serially in Century Illustrated Magazine in 1885–86 and in book form in three volumes in 1886. It was one of the earliest American novels to deal—even obliquely—with lesbianism.
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Based on Henry James' novel, Merchant-Ivory's The Bostonians tells the story of Olive Chancellor, a 19th-century Boston woman dedicated to the suffrage movement who...
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The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. This satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her.
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MHS Film Club: The Bostonians (1984) -- Zoom meeting recorded 27 April 2022 -- Join historians Jim Vrabel and Susan Wilson, as they discuss 1984’s The Bostonians, starri ...more.
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A movie based on Henry James's novel about a young woman caught between two suitors, one male and one female, in the suffragette era. Roger Ebert praises the film's intelligence, subtlety and openness to the underlying tragedy of the characters' dilemmas.
