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Alice James

Alice James was the sister of William and Henry, the only daughter in a family of brilliant and not a little eccentric men, and representative of the intellectually repressed 19th-century woman whose grief finds an outlet in neurotic illness. She kept a withering journal of her life, wrote letters, and left behind a trail needing only modern signposts.

Subject
biographyhistorymemoir
Themes
american history
Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 382 pages

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