'Mrs. Osmond' takes up where Henry James' 'Portrait of a Lady' left off but falls a bit short

“The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million,” Henry James wrote memorably in his preface to “The Portrait of a Lady.” He added that the imposing structure of his 1881 novel was laid on a “single small cornerstone, the conception of a certain young woman affronting her destiny.”...