"Daisy Miller" is Henry James"s classic story of a young American woman who while traveling in Europe is courted by Frederick Winterbourne. Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878, "Daisy Miller" is a novel that plays upon the contrast between American and European society that is common to James"s work. The title character"s youthful innocence is sharply contrasted with the sophistication of European society in this fatefully tragic tale.