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Alice James (August 7, 1848 – March 6, 1892) was an American diarist, sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James. Her relationship with William was unusually close, and she seems to have been badly affected by his marriage.
1 de fev. de 2001 · Alice James: A Biography. Alice James, the younger sister of Henry and William James, might well have become the intellectual equal of her famous brothers had it not been for the constraints of Victorian society on women—constraints, Ms. Strouse suggests, that contributed to her lifelong struggle with neurasthenia.
- Dorothy Packer-Fletcher, Kenneth E. Fletcher
- 2001
7 de ago. de 2017 · Alice James was the sister of William and Henry James, and a writer who chronicled her own death from breast cancer with dignity and aliveness. She also found love and companionship with Katharine Peabody Loring, a woman who became her partner and inspired Henry's novel The Bostonians.
The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence. Alice James (1848-1892) was the sister of Henry and William James, as literary as her more famous brothers, but–as was typical for a Victorian woman–never formally educated and thus deprived of any opportunity for a normal “career.”.
22 de set. de 2017 · Alice James, the sister of William and Henry James, was a lifelong invalid who observed the world with uncommon awareness and sensitivity. In her diary, she wrote about the joy and despair of being an artist, the art of living fully while dying, and the difference between seeing and doing.
1 de nov. de 2011 · Alice James: A Biography. Jean Strouse. New York Review of Books, Nov 1, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages. The Jameses are perhaps the most extraordinary and distinguished family in...
10 de nov. de 2011 · But Alice James, the sickly younger sister of two famously brilliant minds, has proved herself unforgettable. In Jean Strouse's biography Alice James, the author revisits a woman who had a...
