Daisy Miller

First published in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. Daisy Miller, a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs into conflict with the socially pompous American migrant community in Rome, is one of James's most vivid and tragic characters, a great depiction of the dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces. When Frederick, an American ex...