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Alice James, a biography / Jean Strouse

By:

Strouse, Jean

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin , c1980.Description: xv, 367 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780002721875

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 JAM

LOC classification:

CT275.J29 S77

Summary: Alice James was the youngest child and only girl in a family that produced two of the most brilliant individuals in 19th-century America. Her story reveals a fascinating, troubled, highly intelligent woman who struggled to extract a sense of meaning and self from a life that had every outward appearance of failure. She was articulate, politically radical, funny, wise, difficult, and intensely involved with her brothers and friends.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alice James was the youngest child and only girl in a family that produced two of the most brilliant individuals in 19th-century America. Her story reveals a fascinating, troubled, highly intelligent woman who struggled to extract a sense of meaning and self from a life that had every outward appearance of failure. She was articulate, politically radical, funny, wise, difficult, and intensely involved with her brothers and friends.

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