Ebook: Alice James: a biography

An accidental child -- Divine maternity and a Calvinist God -- Natives of the family -- A sensuous education -- Civil War -- A feminine age -- Bostonians -- Nerves -- Breakdown -- Trying to idle -- A grand tour -- Love and work -- Dark waters -- Gains and losses -- Alone -- The wider sphere of reference -- Peculiar intense and interesting affections -- A London life -- A voice of one's own -- Divine cessation -- Afterword: the diary.