The Boston Globe, March 12th, 1991
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 confines of a sick room and by the boundaries of Victorian society that offered few opportunities for women, however intelligent. But she did write, this frail soul, although her family threw away many of her letters, and her brothers blocked the publication of her diary while they were still alive. A hypochondriac given to spells and breakdowns...
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