|A brilliant satire of the elite in [[Boston]] in the late 1800s, this book hurt the career of the magnificent writer Henry James because [[liberal]]s disliked both his mockery of them and his implicit criticism of the early [[feminist]] movement. James did not expect the politically motivated disdain for this classic, and it caused him to shift some of his time to writing plays. | |A brilliant satire of the elite in [[Boston]] in the late 1800s, this book hurt the career of the magnificent writer Henry James because [[liberal]]s disliked both his mockery of them and his implicit criticism of the early [[feminist]] movement. James did not expect the politically motivated disdain for this classic, and it caused him to shift some of his time to writing plays. |