When Alice James, the youngest sister of the famous Henry the novelist, and William the psychologist, started journaling, she was 40 years old. ... A direct example of this is when James' refers one of Emily Dickinson's poems in her diary, while explaining how she had been asked by her doctor if she'd ever been written for the press like her famous brothers: How dreary to be somebody How public like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog. ... An enthusiastic supporter of James, her brother Henry wrote to William that her "vigour of mind and decision ...

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