Summary.р.5-55 ‘The portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James.

Mr. Touchett with his son, Ralph Touchett, and their guest Lord Warburton are talking about life and England. But the key point of their discussion is the sooner arrive of Mrs. Touchett, who has sent them a telegram, from America, that she will arrive with her niece Miss Isabel Archer.

She is the daughter of Miss Touchertt’s sister who died when Isabel was a little girl. Miss Archer has to stay with the father Mr. Archer, who wants the aunt not to turn up her nose of their family. That’s why Mrs. Touchett hasn’t been seen in her society before Isabel’s father passed away.

Isabel is the third child in the family. Her eldest sister Lilian, or Mrs. Ludlow, says to be the practical one; Edith, the second sister, or Mrs. Keys, is considered to be the beautiful one. The youngest Isabel is the intellectual lady. Unlike of her sisters she doesn’t have a husband, but Mr. Caspar Goodwood, from Boston, is her fellow, who thinking her the most beautiful young woman of her time.

Miss Archer and Mrs. Touchett come to England and Isabel is going to make acquaintance with Mr. Touchett and her cousin Ralph. She gets interested in Lord Warburton and vise versa.

England is the new country for the young woman, with its customs, culture and behavior of people. When her aunts remarks her on her doings or talks, Isabel is against Mrs. Touchett, thinking of doing what she wants but she also asks what she shouldn’t do to have a right to choice.