 | Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James Subjects: James Alice Howe Gibbens; James Henry 1843-1916 -- Family; Sisters-in-law -- United States -- Biography; James William 1842-1910 -- Marriage; Spouses -- United States -- Biography; James family; James Alice Howe Gibbens -- Family; James William 18; Alice in Jamesland, the first biography of Alice Howe Gibbens JamesOCowife of the psychologist and philosopher William James, and sister-in-law of novelist Henry JamesOCowas 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, s(r)ances, 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 AliceOCOs own letters and made all the more dynamic because of her role in the James famil Susan E. Gunter is Associate Professor of English, Westminster College. She is also editor of "Dear Munificent Friends: Henry James's Letters to Four Women". (Bowker Author Biography) |
