Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James

by Susan E. Gunter

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, s ances, psychedelic mushrooms, the death of a child, and an enduring love story,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080321569X
• ISBN13: 9780803215696
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"