# The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1

Author: James, Henry, 1843-1916

Genre: Italy

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2833

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Portrait+of+a+Lady+James&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“_The Portrait of a Lady_” was, like “_Roderick Hudson_,” begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “_The American_,” it had been designed for publication in “_The Atlantic Monthly_,” where it began to appear in 1880. It differed from its two predecessors, however, in finding a course also open to it, from month to month, in “_Macmillan’s Magazine_”; which was to be for me one of the last occasions of simultaneous “serialisation” in the two countries that the changing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was long in writing it; I remember be...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-portrait-of-a-lady-volume-1-2833/chapters/3/index.md)