What Maisie KnewBy: Henry James What Maisie Knew is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English upper class society. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks. After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by her selfish mother, Ida, and her vain father, Beale, who