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<p>Henry James, Jr., was one of several reviewers who gave “mixed” reviews to Louisa May Alcott’s first novel, <i>Moods</i>, and in <i>Little Women</i> she complained of the reviewers’ criticisms as inaccurate. This interaction is well known, but, except for Christine Doyle’s “American Girls and American Literature: Louisa May Alcott ‘Talks Back’ to Henry James,” it has not generally been recognized that this prickly relationship recurred in their lives, and that Alcott criticized James, in turn, caricaturing him as a snobbish big-city writer in a short story, “A Country Christmas.” Alcott’s satiric portrait of James was probably beneficial to her in helping her to define what she disliked in his work and studied to avoid in her own, and encouraging her in including satirical elements, “the sarcastic slaps at folkses weak spots,” she enjoyed in his work and emulated as “the Trollope of the nursery and the school-room.”</p>

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Alcott’s James

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    2026年4月20日

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  • Ruth Berman

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Henry James, Jr., was one of several reviewers who gave “mixed” reviews to Louisa May Alcott’s first novel, Moods, and in Little Women she complained of the reviewers’ criticisms as inaccurate. This interaction is well known, but, except for Christine Doyle’s “American Girls and American Literature: Louisa May Alcott ‘Talks Back’ to Henry James,” it has not generally been recognized that this prickly relationship recurred in their lives, and that Alcott criticized James, in turn, caricaturing him as a snobbish big-city writer in a short story, “A Country Christmas.” Alcott’s satiric portrait of James was probably beneficial to her in helping her to define what she disliked in his work and studied to avoid in her own, and encouraging her in including satirical elements, “the sarcastic slaps at folkses weak spots,” she enjoyed in his work and emulated as “the Trollope of the nursery and the school-room.”