1. Biography of Alice James
... nurse and her companion, Katherine Peabody Loring. Like many other diary writers, James' decision to write a little every day was in hope that it might "bring relief as an outlet to that geyser of emotions, sensations, speculations, and reflections which ferments perpetually within my poor old carcass for its ... Your loving idiotoid sister." Jean Strouse, in her biography of James, explains that this sign-off is an early sign of "an energetic if self-depreciating spirit and a lively mind at work on its limited surroundings." (Strouse 116). For she had the intellectual capacity of her br...
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