Alice Dease Explained

Alice Mary Frances Dease
Birth Date:14 February 1874
Birth Place:Turbotston
Death Date:27 October 1949
Death Place:Dundrum, County Dublin
Partner:Philip Charles Chichester
Children:None
Parents:James Arthur Dease and Charlotte Jerningham
Nationality:Irish

Alice Dease (14 February 1874 – 27 October 1949) was an Irish writer and folklorist.

Biography

Born Alice Mary Frances Dease 14 February 1874, she was the tenth and youngest daughter of Irish landowners, James Arthur Dease and Charlotte Jerningham, of Turbotston in County Westmeath. She also had two older brothers. She married Philip Charles Chichester in 1915. Before her marriage she had written a number of works and she wrote about local folklore and had articles and stories published through the Catholic Truth Society. She died a widow in County Dublin in 1949.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911 . www.census.nationalarchives.ie.
  2. Web site: Irish Genealogy . civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie.
  3. Web site: Irish Genealogy . civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie.
  4. Web site: Person Page . Main Page . 1924-09-07 . 2020-01-29.
  5. Web site: Kemp . Sandra . Mitchell . Charlotte . Trotter . David . Dease, Alice . The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction . Oxford University Press . en . 10.1093/acref/9780198117605.001.0001 . 1997. 9780198117605 .
  6. Book: Burke . B. . Fox-Davies . A.C. . A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland . Harrison & Sons . 1912 . 2020-01-29 . 171.
  7. Book: Brozyna, A.E. . Labour, Love, and Prayer: Female Piety in Ulster Religious Literature, 1850-1914 . MQUP . McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion . 1999 . 978-0-7735-1757-8 . 2020-01-29 . 279.