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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 and then as a book later that year. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divorced, irresponsible and narcissistic parents. The book follows the title character from earliest childhood to precocious maturity.

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 parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie to intensify their hatred of each other. Maisie gets a new governess: the frumpy, somewhat ridiculous, but devoted Mrs.

Farange begin an affair with each other. Maisie's parents abandon her and she becomes largely the responsibility of Sir Claude. Eventually, Maisie must decide if she wants to remain with Sir Claude and Mrs. In the book's long final section, set in France , the older probably teenaged Maisie struggles to choose between them and Mrs. Wix, and concludes that her new parents' relationship will likely end as her biological parents' did.

She leaves them and goes to stay with Mrs. Wix, her most reliable adult guardian. What Maisie Knew has attained a fairly strong critical position in the Jamesian canon. Edmund Wilson was one of many critics who admired both the book's technical proficiency and its judgment of a negligent and damaged society. Leavis , on the other hand, declared the book to be "perfection".

The film is set in present-day New York City, and the professions of Maisie's parents are changed.