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No Justice, No Peeps
- The Peep factory workers' labor strike used the clever chant "No justice, no peeps".
- This anecdote shows a creative moment linking labor rights and Easter traditions.
Complexity Defines Henry James
- Henry James represents humans as deeply complex, surpassing simpler novelists.
- His novels reflect life's complexity in character motives and outcomes unlike cruder contemporaries.
Critics' View: Lacks Life
- Critics often found James's fiction lacking life and felt it was a painful duty to read.
- Virginia Woolf and others felt his work was urbane but pale and unengaging.