Alice James
Alice James (August 7, 1848 – March 6, 1892) was a U.S. diarist. The only daughter of Henry James, Sr. and sister of psychologist and philosopher William James and novelist Henry James, she is known mainly for the posthumously published diary that she kept in her final years.
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... Alice and her brother William had a close relationship that has been argued to consist of eroticism ... William would write “mock sonnets” to Alice and read them to her in front of their family ... One such sonnet has William declaring his desire to marry Alice to which she replies that he had told her not “to hope for love from.” William concludes the sonnet by saying that he will commit ...
... She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J ... Strouse's book Alice James A Biography, appeared in 1980 and won a Bancroft Prize ... look at the younger sister of philosopher William James and novelist Henry James, the biography showed how Alice James struggled through various illnesses to create her ...
... Poetry Collections Rough Cradle (Alice James Books, 2009) Late Psalm (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004) Don't Explain (University of Wisconsin Press ...
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