Henry James' Anglo-American Relationships

At the time, was there any kind of backlash to the way he presented women because it was quite different from social norms at the time? Well, yes and no. He didn't do the thing that, for example, Flaubert did with Madame Bovary. So his books, although in his books, adultery happens. But by the end, he was with a book like The Ambassadors,. which is one of his late novels, which she began in 1900. His publisher did think that it was a bit too risque, and it does have an adulterous couple.