What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It tells the story of Maisie Farange, the sensitive daughter, of divorced, irresponsible, narcissistic, vindictive, and vile parents, Beale and Ida Farange. The book...