![]() ![]() Hyacinth eventually learns that the dying woman is his mother and that she murdered his father. Florentine had stabbed her lover to death several years ago, and Pinnie (as Miss Pynsent is nicknamed) takes Hyacinth to see her as she lies dying at Millbank prison. But it is often paired with another novel published by James in the same year, The Bostonians, which is also concerned with political issues, though in a much less tragic manner.Īmanda Pynsent, an impoverished seamstress, has adopted Hyacinth Robinson, the illegitimate son of her old friend Florentine Vivier, a French woman of less than sterling repute, and an English lord. The book is unusual in the Jamesian canon for dealing with such a violent political subject. ![]() It is the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. ![]() The Princess Casamassima is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 18 and then as a book in 1886. Volume one, 252 volume two, 257 volume three, 242 ![]()
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