Non-Fiction:

A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his Literary Circle

Drawing on new material and using new illustrations, Miranda Seymour recreates the last twenty years of James's life in England, as the focal consciousness of a disparate band of writers living around the Romney Marshes: HG Wells, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, W.H. Hudson. In a narrative as artfully construcxted as a Venn diagram, Seymour provides a vivid, irreverent and provocative account of the Master's final years, his complex relationship with his brother, William, and with the writers who proved to be as lethal in their criticisms of James as he of them.

"Compulsively readable, like very good gossip." A.S. Byatt

"A stimulating excursion into another time, lit up by sympathy and humour." John Updike

"Without a moment's fictionalising, Seymour uses her novelist's skill to show us James's inner life...exhilarating." Kenneth McLeish

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