Now it was on the verge of closing, but it was still busy enough to let James work up a scene for his new novel. It had once held convicts waiting to be transported to Australia.
He was a good walker and probably set out on foot from his flat off Piccadilly, cutting through London’s Green Park and then down through Westminster toward the river, heading for Millbank Penitentiary, today the site of Tate Britain. Henry James went to prison on a December morning in 1884.
