Alice James ( August 7 , 1848 , New York - March 6 , 1892 , London, 1892), U.S. diarist, was the sister of Henry James and William James . She is known primarily for the posthumously published diary she kept in the last years of her life. Unsourced...
Alice James (August 7, 1848 – March 6, 1892), U.S. diarist, only daughter of Henry James, Sr. and sister of philosopher William James and novelist Henry James, is known primarily for the posthumously published diary she kept in the last years of...
Alice James isn't exactly the most renowned member of the family that once lived at 20 Quincy St. in Cambridge. The brilliant but troubled sister of novelist Henry and psychologist William, she spent half of her short life as an invalid, trapped by the...
In the J-K volume of a recent Encyclopaedia Britannica, the writer Henry James has a six-column entry. His sister, Alice, is given no mention at all. The 19th-century diarist never succeeded in establishing herself as a talent, which seemed a literary crime to...
In the excerpt that follows, Cappello analyzes the relationship between femininity and self articulation within the context of hysterical illness, using Alice James's Diary as an example.
