L2L Daisy Miler (ft. Carol Andrews)

Daisy Miller

Henry James

Daisy Miller was first published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and focuses on an American heroine in Europe. One of Henry James’ most successful and popular stories, readers responded in two camps: the Daisy Miller-ites, who adored the ingénue, and the anti-Daisy Miller-ites, who felt the nouvelle was “an outrage on American girlhood.” James revised it in 1909, making Daisy’s innocence more explicit, although editors and critics often still prefer the original. James’ work fell out of favor following his death in 1916 but was rediscovered with a passion in the 1940s. Daisy Miller is a well-known and complex tale — and one with a rather unromantic ending. Dr. Carol Andrews, associate professor emerita of literature, joins Leigh and P. T. to explore this successful yet boundary-stretching novella by Henry James.