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Alice James (August 7, 1848 – March 6, 1892) was an American diarist, sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James. Her relationship with William was unusually close, and she seems to have been badly affected by his marriage.
Alice James ( New York, 7 agosto 1848 – Londra, 6 marzo 1892) è stata una scrittrice statunitense . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Note. 3 Voci correlate. 4 Altri progetti. 5 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia. Alice, seduta, sulla sinistra (1890 circa)
13 set 2006 · Sorella di due grandi personalità come lo scrittore Henry James e del filosofo e psicologo William James, affine a loro per intelligenza, cultura ed ambizione, Alice era però una donna cui l’epoca e l’ambiente rendevano impossibile anche solo sperare di potere realizzare le proprie aspirazioni.
7 ago 2017 · Alice James, age 11, in 1857 (Harvard Houghton Library) An awareness of mortality had haunted Alice since her youth — her body was assailed by a mysterious ailment that kept her bedridden, with only intermittent relief from disability. For years, physicians failed to find an organic cause and diagnose her illness.
1 feb 2001 · Share. Alice James, the younger sister of Henry and William James, might well have become the intellectual equal of her famous brothers had it not been for the constraints of Victorian society on women—constraints, Ms. Strouse suggests, that contributed to her lifelong struggle with neurasthenia.
- Dorothy Packer-Fletcher, Kenneth E. Fletcher
- 2001
The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence. Alice James (1848-1892) was the sister of Henry and William James, as literary as her more famous brothers, but–as was typical for a Victorian woman–never formally educated and thus deprived of any opportunity for a normal “career.”.
Alice James. (1848—1892) Quick Reference. (1848–92), sister of Henry James, Jr., and William James, reared, like her four brothers, to find her own values without neighborhood, school, or church affiliations, from the age of 16 suffered recurrent psychosomatic sicknesses that were capped by a severe depression during the last 14 years of her life.
