In her 40s, one of the most powerful people at that time in the worlds, love letters all responding to be punished by morgan fuller 10 and asking please burn them because she kept them too. I think theres a very big difference if you write a biography of a woman born before the 20th century and the best example of that is alice james and jean strausss biography, attempting to piece together a life where we have the clues from court, her brother william and her brother henry and from her letters and diaries, trying to work out 15 or 16, james got into bed basically and suffered and died in her 40s and did not do the work her brothers received, seeming to have the biting wit that both laughed to some extent, a bit of prose style in either of them and a sharper mind, the only girl in the family of five sitting at a dinner table, listening to them, one of them to a stirring age which her mother made clear to her it is your job to start selling and start preparing yourself for marriage, to