The Washington Post, October 19th, 1989
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 the small group of men and women who founded a writers' collective in her name. Alice James Books, an independent press that emphasizes women's work, was conceived in 1972 as a strike against not only Victorian mores, but also against the male-dominated reading lists most college freshmen were studying in the 1970s. "At the time, the peo...
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