Alice James – A Biography - Softcover

Strouse, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067401555X ISBN 13: 9780674015555

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Alice James was the sister of William and Henry, the only daughter in a family of brilliant and not a little eccentric men, and representative of the intellectually repressed 19th-century woman whose grief finds an outlet in neurotic illness. She kept a withering journal of her life, wrote letters, and left behind a trail needing only modern signposts. Alice was an integral part of a family of firm scholars and writers. But she could never seize the opportunities that a few other women of her age did. There was no air to breathe in the intoxicating atmosphere where Henry was already writing spellbinding novels and William was professing at Harvard and reinventing psychology and philosophy. Her life, then, is a singular portrairt embedded in a family history that dazzled her age.

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Review:

Strouse is acquainting us with the younger sister of William and Henry James...[She has] written a Jamesian novel, subtle, evasive, embroidered, splendid. -- John Leonard "New York Times"

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 067401555X
• ISBN 13: 9780674015555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382