Novel
Fiction
What Maisie Knew/Genres

16 years (April 24, 2005)
Onata Aprile/Age

What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divorced, irresponsible and narcissistic parents.

1h 39m
What Maisie Knew/Running time

What Maisie Knew was filmed in New York for 35 days over seven weeks in the summer of 2011. It was shot on 35mm film using an Arri camera. Filming took place in mainly Lower Manhattan, and scenes at the beach house were shot on Long Island.

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What Maisie Knew, novel by Henry James, published in 1897.

The theme of What Maisie Knew is, I submit, the violation of innocence; in particular, the corruption of a child, to add the final turn of the screw, by her own parents. A relatively detailed analy-sis of the novel is necessary to discern this basic theme, but, in James’s own words (in the preface to The Wings of The Dove), “Attention of

WHAT MAISIE KNEW is a contemporary New York City re-visioning of the Henry James novel by the same name, written by Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne. It revolves around unwitting 7-year-old Maisie, caught in the middle of a custody battle between her mother Suzanna, an aging rock star, and her father, Beale, a major art dealer.

What Maisie Knew. Jump to navigation Jump to search. What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divorced, irresponsible and narcissistic parents.

Development. What Maisie Knew was written by Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne in 1995,based on the 1897 novel What Maisie Knew by Henry James.