Ruth Bernard Yeazell writes:

On the other hand, Alice in Jamesland is refreshingly honest about its subject’s less admirable qualities – not just some of the usual prejudices of her day but an appetite for shopping that reached serious proportions in her later years and a habit of dodging customs with the results – a skill that came in handy when she managed to smuggle Henry’s ashes back to the US, so that he could be buried in the Cambridge cemetery with the rest of the family.

(LRB 25 June 2009)

Nebraska | hardback 422 pp. |ISBN: 9780803215696