The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1

PREFACE

“_The Portrait of a Lady_” was, like “_Roderick Hudson_,” begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “_The American_,” it had been designed for publication in “_The Atlantic Monthly_,” where it began to appear in 1880. It differed from its two predecessors, however, in finding a course also open to it, from month to mon...