William James

She commented that Cézanne was also a great influence on her because he conceived the idea that in composition one thing was as important as another thing.She used these ideas to create a...

Reviewers of GS saw this work as embodying a new naturalism.H. G. Wells read Three Lives with deepening pleasure & admiration, and William James wrote to tell her that it was...

Although GS did not graduate from high school and she lacked the Latin requirements to pass the university's entrance exams, she nevertheless managed to persuade the Academic Board of her serious desire to pursue higher...

GS 's studies in psychology, philosophy, and medicine fiction left a deep imprint on her way of thinking and in her work. At Radcliffe College she learned from William James his philosophy of Pragmatism: I...