Returns to England in May. Travels in France. Called back to Boston by his father’s death, December.

1883 In America dealing with his family affairs. Fourteen-volume Collective Edition of novels and tales published. Returns to London in September. Wilky dies, November.

1884 Revisits Paris and Daudet and Zola. A Little Tour in France, Tales of Three Cities and important statement of novelistic principles, ‘The Art of Fiction’, published. Starts writing The Bostonians in Dover, August. Invalid sister comes to live in England.

1886 The Bostonians. The Princess Casamassima. Moves to Chelsea.

1887 Travelling in Italy.

1888 *‘The Lesson of the Master’. The Reverberator, The Aspern Papers.

1890 The Tragic Muse. Turns his attention to the theatre.

1891 *‘The Pupil’. Dramatization of The American enjoys success in London.

1892 *‘The Real Thing’. *‘Greville Fane’. Alice dies, March. Still writing unproduced plays.

1893 *‘The Middle Years’.

1894 Theatricals: Two Comedies and Theatricals: Second Series.

1895 *‘The Death of the Lion’. Disastrous failure of play Guy Domville in London. Returns to fiction.

1896 *‘The Figure in the Carpet’.

1897 The Spoils of Poynton. What Maisie Knew. Begins to compose by dictation.

1898 *‘In the Cage’. Moves to Lamb House, Rye, Sussex. ‘The Turn of the Screw’, his most appreciated publication since ‘Daisy Miller’.

1899 *‘The Real Right Thing’. ‘Late phase’ inaugurated by The Awkward Age. New agent and business arrangements refresh sense of vocation.

1900 *‘Broken Wings’. *‘The Abasement of the Northmores’.

1901 The Sacred Fount.

1902 The Wings of the Dove.

1903 *‘The Beast in the Jungle’. *‘The Birth Place’. The Ambassadors.

1904 *‘Fordham Castle’. The Golden Bowl.

1904–5 Travels and lectures in the USA after twenty-year absence; elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters.

1906 Writes eighteen prefaces for new collection of his fiction.

1907 The American Scene. Publication begins of the New York Edition, 24 vols.