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Juliet Helena Lumbard James

b. 1864

Best known as the first wife of novelist Henry James, she appears in literary history through the circle around one of America’s most famous writing families. Publicly available information about her is quite limited, which only adds to the sense of a life partly hidden behind better-known names.

2 Audiobooks

Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco

Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco

by Juliet Helena Lumbard James

Palaces and Courts of the Exposition A Handbook of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, with Special Reference to the Symbolism

Palaces and Courts of the Exposition A Handbook of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, with Special Reference to the Symbolism

by Juliet Helena Lumbard James

About the author

Juliet Helena Lumbard James was born in 1864. She is most often identified in reference works and family-history records through her connection to the James family, and especially as the first wife of Henry James.

Reliable biographical details about her own life are scarce in the sources I could confirm. Because of that, it is safer to present her as a historical figure known mainly through that family connection rather than to repeat uncertain claims.

For readers interested in the wider context, her name belongs to the extended world surrounding the James family, whose members included major figures in American literature and thought. In cases like this, the surviving record can be fragmentary, so a brief, careful sketch is more accurate than a fuller story built on guesswork.