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Your browser does not support the audio element. In The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James borrows from Eliot, Austen, folktales and potboilers, but ‘the thing that he ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...