For 10 points, name this American novelist of Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady.
In a novella by this author, the narrator pretends to be a gardening enthusiast so that he can let a room at an absurdly high price from two old spinsters in a Venetian mansion. In that novella by this man, the narrator is a literary scholar who is desperate to obtain a set of letters written to Juliana Bordereau by the fictional American poet Jeffrey Aspern. This author also created the gold-digging loafer Morris Townsend, who woos the naive daughter of Dr. Sloper, a resident of the title New York neighborhood. He also created the brooding expatriate Gilbert Osmond, who marries the American heiress Isabel Archer. For 10 points, name this American novelist of Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady.
In a novella by this author, the narrator pretends to be a gardening enthusiast so that he can let a room at an absurdly high price from two old spinsters in a Venetian mansion.
Henry James &lt;Casalaspi&gt;