The Birthplace The Platform of Time is

The Platform of Time is a new collection of largely unknown biographical sketches from one of Britain’s foremost Modernist writers

it is also a tender portrayal of one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century

friends and servants as her subjects

Taking family

And as she describes their lives – including an in-depth piece on Julian Bell

The Birthplace The Platform of Time isHenry James displays his characteristic eye for character and a wry appreciation of pretension and the absurd. The Birthplace also embodies James engagement with the debate surrounding the cult of the Bard and the mercenary industry it had already engendered by the late nineteenth century. The Birthplace is published here alongside The Private Life, another little known work in which James tackles the broader issue of the importance of the author in