April 02, 2010
Writers at Rest: Henry James
When this photograph was taken, Henry James was visiting the home of Stephen Crane in England. Crane was highly regarded as the author of "The Red Badge of Courage" and as a war correspondent, so many of England's writers were glad to make his acquaintance.
Not so many were interested in meeting Cora, however. Not only was she living with Crane as his common-law wife, but she was the former owner of a brothel in Jacksonville, Fla. After Stephen Crane died in 1900, she was shunned by many of Crane's literary friends, and two years later, deep in debt, she returned to Florida where she resumed her life as a madame. In the meantime, James enjoyed her doughnuts.
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