What Maisie Knew by Henry James.

'Her little world was phantasmagoric - strange shadows on a sheet. It was as if the whole performance had been given for her - a mite of a half-scared infant in a great dim theatre'.

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On this day in 1897 ‘What Maisie Knew’ was published.

It tells the story of divorce and adulthood entirely through the perceptive eyes of a young girl, Maisie Farange.

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