The Madonna of the Future

by Henry James (1843-1916)

Versions of The Madonna of the Future include:

• "The Madonna of the Future" in The Atlantic Monthly 31 (185) (March 1873): 276–297.

  — First publication in any form

• "The Madonna of the Future" in A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1875): 261–325.

  — First American book edition; revised for publication by James.

• "The Madonna of the Future" in The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales (London: Macmillan & Co., 1879) 1: 1–73.

  — First English book edition; further revised for publication by James.

• "The Madonna of the Future" in The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales (London: Macmillan & Co., 1880): 1–57.

  — Reprint of the first English book edition in a single volume; also later sold as a Times Book Club issue.

• "The Madonna of the Future" in The Madonna of the Future, Longstaff's Marriage, Madame de Mauves (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1880): 7–78.

  — First Continental book edition. Volume 1881 of Tauchnitz's "Collection of British Authors". Provenance of text to be determined.

• "The Madonna of the Future" in The Madonna of the Future, A Bundle of Letters, The Diary of a Man of Fifty, Eugene Pickering (London: Macmillan & Co., 1883): 3–46.

  — Volume 14 of the "Collective Edition of 1883"; uses the The Madonna of the Future and other Tales text.

• "The Madonna of the Future" in The Reverberator, Madame de Mauves, A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908): 435–492. (transcription project)

  — Volume 13 of The Novels and Tales of Henry James (the "New York Edition") — American issue; this is the last edition to be revised by James.

• "The Madonna of the Future" in The Reverberator, Madame de Mauves, A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales (London: Macmillan and Co., 1908): 435–492.

  — Volume 13 of The Novels and Tales of Henry James (the "New York Edition") — English issue.

• "The Madonna of the Future" in The Reverberator, Madame de Mauves, A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales (London: Macmillan & Co., 192?): 393–442.

  — Volume 18 of The Novels and Stories of Henry James, the first posthumous collection of James' works; uses the "New York Edition" text.

Translation into French:

• "La Madone de L'avenir" ["The Madonna of the Future"] in Revue des Deux Mondes ["Review of Both Worlds"] 14 (1 January 1876): 590–617.

  — Translated by Lucien Biart.

Translation into German:

• "?" in Ein Leidenschaftlicher Erdenpilger uld Andere Erzählungen ["A Passionate Pilgrin and Other Tales"] (Amerikanische Novellisten [American Novels] 1) (Leipzig: Grunow): ?–?.

  — Translated by Moritz Busch.

Translation into Swedish:

• ""?" in Fru de Mauves Framtidens Madonna Fyra Sammanträffanden Tre Berättelser ["Mrs. de Mauves, The Future Madonna, Four Coincidences: Three Stories"] (Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1893).

  — Translator unknown.