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1 online resource (xvii, 422 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-405) and index. |
| Summary |
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, séances, 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 Alice?s own letters and made all the more dynamic b. |
| Local Note |
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James, Alice Howe Gibbens.
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James, Alice Howe Gibbens. |
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Family.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916. |
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Families. |
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James, William, 1842-1910 -- Marriage.
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James, William, 1842-1910. |
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Marriage. |
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James family.
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James family. |
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James, Alice Howe Gibbens -- Family.
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James, William, 1842-1910 -- Family.
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Sisters-in-law -- United States -- Biography.
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Sisters-in-law. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Spouses -- United States -- Biography.
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Spouses. |
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Women -- United States -- Biography.
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Women. |
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United States -- History -- 1865-1921 -- Biography.
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History. |
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1865-1921 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gunter, Susan E., 1947- Alice in Jamesland. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009 9780803215696 080321569X (DLC) 2008037796 (OCoLC)248536825 |
| ISBN |
9780803222755 (electronic book) |
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0803222750 (electronic book) |
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9780803215696 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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080321569X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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