Eventually, Maisie must decide if she wants to remain with Sir Claude and Mrs. Maisie's parents abandon her and she becomes largely the responsibility of Sir Claude. Wix.īoth Ida and Beale soon cheat on their spouses in turn, Sir Claude and the new Mrs. Maisie gets a new governess: the frumpy, somewhat ridiculous, but devoted Mrs. Beale Farange marries Miss Overmore, Maisie's pretty governess, while Ida marries the likeable but weak Sir Claude. The parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie to intensify their hatred of each other. When Beale and Ida Farange divorce, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each. The book follows the title character from earliest childhood to precocious maturity. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divorced, irresponsible and narcissistic parents. 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.
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