{"product_id":"alice-james-a-biography-9781250364494","title":"Alice James: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Bancroft Prize for American History \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe only comprehensive biography of the astute observer and diarist Alice James, whose life and legacy were long overshadowed by her two famous brothers, William and Henry James.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice James is perhaps best known as the sister of Henry James, the novelist, and William James, \"the father of American psychology.\" Few readers were familiar with Alice's own life--until Jean Strouse's \u003ci\u003eAlice James\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis illuminating, insightful biography takes us into the hidden life of this extraordinary woman. Despite her struggles with a variety of psychological and physical disorders, and with the limited options facing nineteenth-century women, James was articulate, politically radical, witty, and highly intelligent. She found her voice in a diary she kept until her death from breast cancer in 1892. Strouse's enthralling portrait not only introduces a little-known figure from the American past but casts new light on the history of American women and on the other members of the country's most prominent intellectual family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250364494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Jean Strouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44655509668021,"sku":"9781250364494","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ea7b4780-2872-4b45-97cf-47aad24339cb.jpg?v=1727192407","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/alice-james-a-biography-9781250364494","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}