1. Alice James was an American diarist, and the younger sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James.
14 Facts About Alice James
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Alice James soon developed the psychological and physical problems that would plague her until the end of her life at age 43.
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Alice James went to a Boston school called Miss Clapp's, where she met Frances Rollins Morse, one of her life-long friends often cited in her published diary and correspondence.
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Alice James taught history from 1873 to 1876 for the Society to Encourage Studies at Home, a Boston-based correspondence school for women founded by Anna Eliot Ticknor.
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In 1888, twenty years after Alice James was "overwhelmed by violent turns of hysteria", she wrote in her diary that she was both suicidal and homicidal.
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Alice James was struggling with the urge to kill her father, though this diary entry does not state the reason why she was patricidal.
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Alice James was seen as struggling through her illnesses to find her own voice.
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Henry, one of Alice James's brothers, read this work with deep alarm but with enormous admiration.
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Alice James wrote in a letter to another of the James brothers, William, that he now understood what had caused their sister's debility.
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Alice James did not see her illness as a product of conflict between her character and her "usual world" surroundings.
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All of the panels exhibit Alice James drawn older than she was at the creation of these sketches as she was 11 at the time.
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Alice James is sitting in a chair on a top floor while William is in a room below her.
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Alice James stands more erect in the next two panels.
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Alice James is seen wearing a tight bodice and a feather hat.