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Winner of the Bancroft Prize for American History

psychology and philosophy. Her life, then, is a singular portrait embedded in a family history that dazzled her age and still interests ours.

psychology and philosophy. Her life, then, is a singular portrait embedded in a family history that dazzled her age and still interests ours.

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... Read Full Overview

Winner of the Bancroft Prize for American History The only comprehensive biography of the astute observer and diarist Alice James, whose life and legacy were long overshadowed by her two famous brothers, William and Henry James. Alice James is perhaps best known... Read Full Overview

Winner of the Bancroft Prize for American History The only comprehensive biography of the astute observer and diarist Alice James, whose life and legacy were long overshadowed by her two famous brothers, William and Henry James. Alice James is perhaps best known... Read Full Overview

psychology and philosophy. Her life, then, is a singular portrait embedded in a family history that dazzled her age and still interests ours.