Theodora Bosanquet MBE (3 October 1880 – 1 June 1961)[1] was a writer, reviewer, editor, secretary, and amanuensis to Henry James.

[7] A week after she had started in the role, James wrote to his brother William to describe:a new excellent amanuensis... a young boyish Miss Bosanquet, who is worth all the other (females) that I have had put together...

[8] Bosanquet wrote of the in-laws as viewing her as too "presumptuous", particularly in keeping figures such as Edith Wharton - whose adultery they disapproved of - informed about the novelist's wellbeing.

She later developed, at the Woolfs' request, the Little Review article into a memoir, published by the Hogarth Press in 1924 as Henry James at Work, and reprinted, slightly revised, in 1927.

[4] From the early 1930s, Bosanquet developed an increasingly close relationship with Time and Tide founder Lady (Margaret) Rhondda, and the two lived together from 1933.

[4] Feminists and active suffragists, the two were life partners for 25 years, dividing their time between homes in London and Kent, until Lady Rhondda's death in 1958.

[7] Following the death of her partner, Lady Rhondda, in 1958, Bosanquet moved to a single room in Crosby Hall, Kensington, owned by the British Federation of University Women.

[11] In her will, Bosanquet left money to Crosby Hall Endowment Fund, and to the Society for Psychical Research,[12] of which she had been a longtime member.

[5]Reviewers of the work noted its revelation of Bosanquet as a woman of intellection "as fully engaged in the life of ideas and cultural production as her male counterparts, making as much of her putatively secondary status as she possibly could.