This author created the aged Miss Birdseye, who acts as a mentor for two characters in a novel that popularized the term for two cohabiting women.
An essay from Cynthia Ozick's Fame &amp; Folly discusses how this author was haunted by his father's vision of a "damnÃ¨d shape squatting invisible to me," which helped shape this author's understanding of the "sacred terror." In a novel by this author, two characters go on a secret date by taking a tour of the local university, where they admire a memorial to students who died in the Civil War. In another novel by this author, a rich shoemaker's son named Mitchy marries Aggie while his true love goes to live as Mr. Longdon's ward rather than marrying. In that work by this author, (*) Vanderbank gives up on marrying Nanda Brookenham because she is too modern. This author created the aged Miss Birdseye, who acts as a mentor for two characters in a novel that popularized the term for two cohabiting women. In that novel, Basil Ransom quarrels with the suffragette Olive Chancellor over the affections of Verena. For 10 points, name this author of The Awkward Age and The Bostonians. 
An essay from Cynthia Ozick's Fame &amp; Folly discusses how this author was haunted by his father's vision of a "damnÃ¨d shape squatting invisible to me," which helped shape this author's understanding of the "sacred terror."
Henry James