Daisy Miller is a novella by American author Henry James, originally published in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878. It portrays the courtship of Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a young American expatriate. The story follows Daisy and her companions on a journey to Europe. While traveling, Daisy meets and is courted by Winterbourne, a patrician American who is initially captivated by her free-spirited manner. However, Winterbournes aunt tries to discourage their union, and Daisys naivete leads her to indiscretions which further dampen his enthusiasm for the match. The novella moves from Switzerland, to Rome, and then to the countryside. Through this journey, James portrays his protagonists struggle as she attempts to move between two apparently irreconcilable ways of life: her own and that of Winterbournes coterie. In the end, Daisys death serves as an ironic comment on class and the condition of women in Victorian society. As the winter draws to a close, Daisy succumbs to Roman fever—a euphemism for an unspecified illness, probably malaria. Her untimely death marks a poetically just end to a story of a young woman who was unable to reconcile the opposing social expectations of American innocence and European sophistication.