He found his talent for humour at school and developed his musical ability by singing in the choir at St James's, his local church.

James's voice deepened and coarsened, moving her musical style in her later years into the genres of soul and jazz.

For this latest addition to the Great Letters Series, under the general editorship of Louis Kronenberger, Miss Hardwick has made a selection which admirably displays the variety of James's genius, not to mention the felicities of his style.

The final phase of James's short narratives shows the same characteristics as the final phase of his novels: a more involved style, a deeper psychological approach, and a sharper focus on his central characters.

Other critics like E. M. Forster complained about what they saw as James's squeamishness in the treatment of sex and other possibly controversial material, or dismissed his style as difficult and obscure, relying heavily on extremely long sentences and excessively latinate language.

He was also a successful blues man who played electric slide guitar in James's style.

James's music & style still today has immense influence upon today's modern blues icons, including the young Derek Trucks of the Allman Brothers and The Derek Trucks Band, who has attributed James as his most predominant influence, and inspiration.

When Elizabeth died unmarried and childless in 1603, the throne passed to James VI of Scotland, a great-grandson of Henry VII, who ruled in England as James I. James's silver coinage changed little from that of Elizabeth in production and style.

James's characteristic role as active literary participant and patron in the Scottish court made him a defining figure for English Renaissance poetry and drama, which would reach a pinnacle of achievement in his reign, but his patronage for the high style in his own Scottish tradition largely became sidelined.

James's characteristic role as active literary participant and patron in the Scottish court made him in many respects a defining figure for English Renaissance poetry and drama, which would reach a pinnacle of achievement in his reign, but his patronage for the high style in his own Scottish tradition, a tradition which includes his ancestor James I of Scotland, largely became sidelined.

Their first success in this style was Jhabvala's adaptation of Henry James's The Europeans.

He was a fan favourite with his robust style of playing, and he endeared himself to the Toon Army even further when, during the 1976 – 77 season, he scored the only goal of the game against Teesside club Middlesbrough at St James's.

Another spate of injuries marred James's 1933-34, as Arsenal retained their title but scoring far fewer ( 75 ) goals in the process, but with James recovered they won a fourth, and their third in a row in 1934-35 in style, with Ted Drake scoring 42 league goals that season, many of them supplied by James.

James's relationship with the House of Lancaster changed in February 1423 when he married Joan Beaufort, a cousin of Henry VI and the niece of Thomas, Duke of Exeter and Henry, Bishop of Winchester.

The truce with England expired in May 1436 but James's perception of the Anglo-French conflict changed following a realignment of the combatants.

The core members of the company changed in both major and minor ways before James's accession.

Mary was weak and ill from May 1558, and died aged 42 at St. James's Palace during an influenza epidemic that also claimed the life of Reginald Pole later the same day, 17 November 1558.

He restored her previous honours, and allowed her to reside in St James's Palace, but excluded her from government and refrained from appointing her regent during his absences abroad.

A briefer confrontation occurred in 1613 when Anne shot and killed James's favourite dog during a hunting session.

Although parliament exonerated Albany, fears for James's safety grew during the winter of 1405 – 6 and plans were made to send him to France.

A Hebrew translator by the name of Jehuda was employed at James's court during this period.

Among James's masterpieces are Daisy Miller ( 1879 ); in which the eponymous protagonist, the young and innocent American Daisy Miller, finds her values in conflict with European sophistication ; and The Portrait of a Lady ( 1881 ), in which a young American woman finds that her upbringing has ill prepared her against two scheming American expatriates during her travels in Europe.

James's work has remained steadily popular with the limited audience of educated readers to whom he spoke during his lifetime, and remained firmly in the British canon, but after his death American critics, such as Van Wyck Brooks, expressed hostility towards James's long expatriation and eventual naturalisation as a British citizen.

John W. Sheets, the bank cashier, was killed in the process by Jesse James, who believed Sheets was Samuel P. Cox, who had killed James's bushwhacker Bloody Bill Anderson during the American Civil War.

Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's father, James II, was deposed during the Glorious Revolution ; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, William III and Mary II.

James's policies during the 1470s revolved primarily around ambitious continental schemes for territorial expansion and alliance with England.

The original main building was expanded, and the Lockwood Building, Whitehead Building, Education Building, Warmington Tower and St James's Hall were all built during this period in order to accommodate the influx of new students.

A great-grandson of the 4th Earl of Northumberland, Percy was reported to have had a " wild youth " before he became a Catholic, and during Elizabeth's final years had been entrusted by the 9th earl with a secret mission to James's court in Scotland, to plead with the king on behalf of England's Catholics.

She became a resident at the Stafford Hotel in St James's Place, near Piccadilly, formerly a British and American forces club during the war.

Horses pulling a large carriage known as a " covered brake " collect the Yeoman of the Guard in their distinctive red uniforms from St James's Palace for Investitures at Buckingham Palace ; High Commissioners or Ambassadors are driven to their audiences with The Queen in landaus ; visiting heads of state are transported to and from official arrival ceremonies and members of the Royal Family are driven in Royal Mews coaches during Trooping the Colour, the Order of the Garter service at Windsor Castle and carriage processions at the beginning of each day of Royal Ascot.

St James's Church at Eve Hill also had a church school from the mid 19th century, but this was closed during the 1970s and was used as a community centre for several years before being transferred to the Black Country Museum in 1989.

James's father, Darnley, was murdered on 10 February 1567 during an unexplained explosion at Kirk o ' Field, Edinburgh, perhaps in revenge for Rizzio's death.

Although Richardson had been frequently discussed in the early 1970s as a likely candidate for President in 1976, Richardson's acceptance of the appointment to Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, as it is formally titled, effectively eliminated him from the domestic scene during the pre-election period.

In 1559 James's political activities and allegiances during the Scottish Reformation were at first equivocal, but in February 1560 he signed the Treaty of Berwick which invited an English army into Scotland to expel the Catholic regime of Mary of Guise.

Also in 1604, James's son, the future King Charles I made the first of three visits he would make to the town during his life.

On the death of James's son Sancho I in 1324, James III of Majorca took the throne at the age of nine, necessitating a regency council to govern the realm during his childhood.

His brother Simon or Simeon, seems to have led the community after James's death, seeking refuge in Pella during the Jewish Revolt.

WPC Yvonne Joyce Fletcher ( 15 June 1958 – 17 April 1984 ) was a British police officer fatally shot during a protest outside the Libyan embassy at St. James's Square, London, in 1984.

Set over a largely flat course around the River Thames, the race begins at three separate points around Blackheath and finishes in The Mall alongside St. James's Park.

Alexander, on re-entering the turret, attempted to bind James's hands ; a struggle ensued, in the course of which the king was seen at the window by some of his followers below in the street, who also heard him cry " treason " and call for help to the Earl of Mar.

After James II was deposed in 1688 and replaced by his daughter Mary II, ruling jointly with her husband and first cousin ( James's nephew ) William III, the Stuarts lived in exile, occasionally attempting to regain the throne.

She was baptised into the Anglican faith in the Chapel Royal at St. James's, and was named after her ancestress, Mary, Queen of Scots.

The cross-dressing actress Charlotte Charke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis Court at St. James's, Westminster, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding.

James's alleged obsession with Barbara Windsor was such that it was said he returned to his home one day to find that all of the furniture had been rearranged, and on another occasion that her husband of the time, Ronnie Knight, had put an axe in his floor.

However, her chief minister Sir Robert Cecil had corresponded with the Protestant King James VI of Scotland, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and James's succession to the English throne was unopposed.

She made her first public appearance as a lecturer at St. James's Hall in London on December 4, 1877.

* February 7 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom ( and her five other Commonwealth realms ) at St. James's Palace, London, England.

* July 13 – Queen Victoria moves from Kensington Palace into Buckingham Palace, the first reigning British monarch to make this, rather than St James's Palace, her London home.

At the baptism in November 1717, her husband fell out with his father over the choice of godparents, leading to the couple's placement under house arrest at St. James's Palace prior to their banishment from court.

Although Aurembiax's mother, Elvira, had made herself a protegée of James's father, upon her death in 1220 Guerao had occupied the county and displaced Aurembiax, claiming that a woman could not inherit.

Philip Herriton's mission to retrieve her from Italy has features in common with that of Lambert Strether in Henry James's The Ambassadors.

For some time her brother had been urging her to flee to England with her sons ; but she had steadily refused to do so, fearing such a step might lead to James's loss of the crown.

James's son became king as James III and his widow Mary of Guelders acted as regent until her own death three years later.