The “Fresh” Family

First, our rap…

William JamesSpouse: Alice H. GibbensEducation: Harvard UniversitySchool of thought: PragmatismInterests: Philosophy, Psychology, Philosophy of Religion, Art, Epistemology, languages (fluent in 5)Hobbies: Writing, Reading, Public Speaking, Speaking with the other world, Running experimentsCoined phrases: Cash ValueQuote: “Our belief in truth itself ... what is it but a passionate affirmation of desire, in which our social system backs us up?”Friends: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Peirce, Josiah Royce, John Dewey, Ernst Mach, Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, Jr, Sigmund Freud

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Henry JamesRelationship status: SingleEducation: Harvard UniversityAwards: Order of MeritInterests: Literature, Law, Travel, Countries other than AmericaHobbies: Writing, Reading, Letter writingMajor Works: The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of a Dove, Daisy Miller, The AmbassadorsQuote: “It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”Friends: Ellen Temple, Katherine Temple, Mary Temple, Helen Perkins, Charles Eliot Norton, Arthur Sedgwik, Lizzie Boott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, William Howells, Thomas Perry

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Alice JamesRelationship status: its complicated with Katherine LoringEducation: no formal educationOccupation: History teacherInterests: Reading, SleepingHobbies: Journaling, Reading, criticizing others Quote: “How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.”“The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?” Friends: Katherine Loring, Henry James

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Henry James, Sr. Spouse: Mary JamesChildren: William, Henry, Garth, Robertson, AliceEducation: Union College, Princeton Theological SeminarySchool of thought: Naturalism, FourierismReligion: PresbyterianInterests: Religion, Spiritual RegenerationHobbies: Writing, Solitary confinementQuotes: "The bent of my nature is towards affection and thought rather than action. I love the fireside rather than the forum."Friends: Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, William Thackeray

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