[ James / The Bostonians ]
Henry James (1843 - 1916) was an American-British novelist and short story writer, regarded by many as one of the most important literary figures in English letters.
The novel's sole reference to Newfoundlands occurs in Chapter 29:
And then Mrs. Luna, sitting with her sister, much withdrawn, in one of the windows of the big, hot, faded parlour of the boarding-house in Tenth Street, where there was a rug before the chimney representing a Newfoundland dog saving a child from drowning, and a row of chromo-lithographs on the walls, imparted to her the impression she had received the evening before. . . .