Jean Strouse - Alice James : A Biography (2011) [epub]

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Engrossing, disquieting … Stunning … this book is haunting.
—Naomi Bliven


Winner of The Bancroft Prize

The Jameses are perhaps the most extraordinary and distinguished family in American intellectual life. Henry’s novels, celebrated as among the finest in the language, and William’s groundbreaking philosophical and psychological works have won these brothers a permanent place at the center of the nation’s cultural firmament. Less well known is their enigmatic younger sister, Alice. But as Jean Strouse’s generous, probing, and deeply sympathetic biography shows, Alice James was a fascinating and exceptional figure in her own right. Tormented throughout her short life by an array of nervous disorders, constrained by social convention and internal conflict from achieving the worldly success she desired, Alice was nonetheless a vivid, witty writer, an acute social observer, and as alert, inquiring, and engaging a person as her two famous brothers. “The moral and philosophical questions that Henry wrote up as fiction and William as science,” writes Strouse, “Alice simply lived.”

Miss Strouse, in acquainting us with the younger sister of William and Henry James, has, as it were—and she is witty about Henry’s ”ineluctable ‘as it weres’— written a Jamesian novel, subtle, evasive, embroidered, splendid…. Miss Strouse, who weaves instead of hammering home her delicate points is as expert in literary criticism as she is in recreating family life, medicine, psychology and education in 19th-century America.
—John Leonard

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