Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady
  • As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw'
  • 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world
  • Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors
  • Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove
  • 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.