James found the figure of "the American Girl" congenial to many of his important themes and refined and extended his depiction of her in Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Milly Theale in The Wings of the Dove (1902), and Maggie Verver in The Golden Bowl (1904). The international theme developed in these works also figures prominently in Roderick Hudson (1875) which is about a young sculptor.....
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