James Gordon Bennett

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    It was a real treat when he’d read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we’d reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I’d have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    Sad mortals! thus the gods still plague you!
    He lost his labor, I my jest;
    For he was drowned, and I’ve the ague.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    You involved me in a public scandal. I protested. You said, “Do your worst” and that’s precisely what I did.
    —Charles Bennett (b.1899)