History records no meeting between Miss Lilian Hallowes and Miss Theodora Bosanquet. History does not, in fact, record much at all about Miss Hallowes, who spent twenty years as Joseph Conrad's secretary. About Miss Bosanquet—I'll give them the honorifics of their day—we know more, not least because she left a record of her own employer, an elegant, indispensable pamphlet called Henry James at Work (1924). A graduate of University College, London, she was with James from 1907 until his death in 1916, sitting at her Remington as his dictating voice rolled from sentence to sentence. Probably she knew him as well in his final years as anyone, and indeed, she found him his last London flat, around the corner from the Chelsea building where she lived with another young woman. Later, she moved on the edges of Bloomsbury,
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