Abstract

For Henry James, the death of his cousin, Minny Temple, was the end of a chapter in his life. It is the fitting end to the impressions of his own youth gathered in Notes of a Son and Brother: Much as this cherished companion's presence among us had represented for William and myself-and it is on his behalf I especially speak-her death made a mark that must stand here for a too waiting conclusion. We felt it together as the end of our youth.1 In the opening pages of the third, unfinished volume of memories, The Middle Years, James expands this youth to encompass far more than simply the adolescence of young Henry and William:

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