Alice in Jamesland the story of Alice Howe Gibbens James /

Alice in Jamesland, the first biography of Alice Howe Gibbens James?wife of the psychologist and philosopher William James, and sister-in-law of novelist Henry James?was made possible by the rediscovery of hundreds of her letters and papers thought to be destroyed in the 1960s. Encompassing European...

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Main Author: Gunter, Susan E., 1947-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
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Summary:Alice in Jamesland, the first biography of Alice Howe Gibbens James?wife of the psychologist and philosopher William James, and sister-in-law of novelist Henry James?was made possible by the rediscovery of hundreds of her letters and papers thought to be destroyed in the 1960s. Encompassing European travel, Civil War profiteering, suicide, a stormy courtship, séances, psychedelic mushrooms, the death of a child, and an enduring love story, Alice in Jamesland is a portrait of a nineteenth-century upper-middle-class marriage, told often through Alice?s own letters and made all the more dynamic b.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 422 p., [20] p. of plates) : ill.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-405) and index.
ISBN:9780803222755 (electronic bk.)
0803222750 (electronic bk.)