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Alice James 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. James suffered lifelong psychological problems, that were generally dismissed as hysteria, in the style of the day. She is best known for her published diaries, which reveal much about her obsessions and mental imbalance. They display sharp insights into psychosomatic illness as a deliberate flight from reality.

✵ 7. August 1848 – 6. March 1892
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Alice James Quotes

“What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”

Alice James

As quoted in Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal (1934).

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“Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.”

Alice James

As quoted in Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal (1934).

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