Alice James Quotes

“back — and I stretched myself in comfort on the green couch in the library and contemplated the heap of nice white paper bundles on the piano — Then I was a surprise-party to A.F. and we sat up late and talked of many things. It is ten years since Mr. Fields died and I spent my first Christmas there!” Of Miss Jewett and Mrs. Fields, Henry James wrote that “their reach together was of the firmest and easiest and I verily remember being struck with the stretch of wings that the spirit of Charles Street could bring off.” About the “marriage” between Alice and Katharine, however, Henry was not quite so sanguine. Something in its intensity troubled him, and he would express this unease in The Bostonians.”
― Jean Strouse, Alice James

“Constance, with her plainness, deafness, and superior age (she was three years older than Henry), probably did not strike Alice as a serious rival for her brother’s love.”
― Jean Strouse, Alice James