“_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 month, in “_Macmillan’s Magazine_”; which was to be for me one of the last occasions of simultaneous “serialisation” in the two countries that the changing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was long in writing it; I remember being…
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