Alice James Biography

Alice James, Writer

Occup.	Writer
From	USA
Born	August 7, 1848 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	March 6, 1892
Aged	43 years

Alice James was born in 1848 in the United States to parents Henry James Sr. as well as Mary Walsh. She was the youngest amongst her brother or sisters, including famous writers Henry James and also William James. Alice lived most of her life in the shadow of her famous family members and also suffered from chronic ailments, consisting of physical and also psychological wellness concerns.

Alice was enlightened in your home, and also her papa, a philosopher and theologian, functioned as her coach. She showed an early passion in literary works as well as added to family members discussions of literary works as well as national politics. However, her ailments hindered her academic progress, as well as she could never ever pursue an official education.

In 1870, following her bro William James, Alice traveled to Europe to seek medical attention for her health and wellness issues. They stayed in London with their brother Henry James, that was starting his job as an author. Alice's health problem did not boost, as well as she went back to the U.S. in 1871.

Alice spent the next twenty years in as well as out of wellness organizations, where she looked for therapy for her physical and also mental conditions. Her journals, which she started in 1889, ended up being a document of her health problems, intellectual interests, and sharp wit. The diaries later acquired recognition as a literary work.

Alice never ever married or had any kids, and she passed away in 1892 at the age of 44 due to breast cancer. She continued to be prolific up until her fatality, and also her journals were ultimately published in 1934, over forty years after her passing away. Her works received crucial praise for their intense observations on her condition, feminism, as well as the intellectual life of a woman in the nineteenth century.

On The Whole, Alice James lived a brief but meaningful life. Despite the fact that she struggled with health issues the majority of her life, she made a substantial payment to literature and acted as an inspiration for numerous ladies that adhered to in her steps.

Our collection contains 11 quotes who is written / told by Alice.

Related authors: Henry James (Writer), William James (Philosopher), Philo (Philosopher), Ice T (Musician), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

Alice James Famous Works:

1934 The Diary of Alice James (Book)

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11 Famous quotes by Alice James

"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied"

"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience"

"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience"

"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading"

"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness"

"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"

"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity"

"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul"

"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am"

"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more"

"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape"