Congrats, Mom, You've Been Linked!

Ahaha.....

Last week I noted a post by the ALN Girl in Chicago regarding the underappreciated humor of Henry James. Not being a savant myself (I admit that I am intimidated by the amount of sheer hard work that goes into reading James), I invited Mom to drop off some comments, she being the bona fide HJ scholar in the family. Mom immediately took the bait.

Well ALN's OGIC has a follow-up post today citing Mom's supporting comments, together with those of several other writers. That's pretty neat. I'm sure, Mom, you'll want to nip over and check out the thoughts of your fellow James the Humorist enthusiasts.

Also, in updating the original post, I added an illustration of a Penguin Classics edition of James' novel What Maisie Knew, featuring a detail from one of my favorite paintings by John Singer Sargent. I remarked that it was serendipitous that Penguin had chosen this particular painting. However, Mom later informed me that there was more to it than that, in that James was an early champion of Sargent's work. (Mom tried to write a follow up comment about this, but her computer crashed. Hopefully, she'll do so again.)

Next thing you know, Mom's going to set up her own blog. I have the perfect suggestion for a title: Prism! Where Is That Baby? [I know this is Wilde, not James. It's a long-standing family joke, however.]

Yip! Yip!

UPDATE: Wodehouse fans are especially encouraged to check out what Lance Mannion has to say about the gunneggshun (as Fitzgerald might say) between James and some of Plum's more Bohemian creations.