Alice James

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

Alice James (7 August, 1848 - 6 March 1892) was a U.S. diarist, the sister of Henry James and William James. She is known primarily for the posthumously published diary she kept in the last years of her life.

Quotes

• What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
  • As quoted in Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal (1934).

• Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
  • As quoted in Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal (1934).

External links

• Genius in the Family: Cameo Biography by Abby Wolf
• Visiting the Emerson Girls by Frank Albrecht
• "Illness as Metaphor" Susan Sontag's only play: Alice in Bed