Item Detail
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Werner, Alice (1859-1935)
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A. W.; Miss Werner; A. Werner
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poet, philologist, professor of Bantu languages, story writer, writer on African languages & mythology & race, periodical contributor, translator (French), editorial writer
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born in Trieste (now in Italy) to a naturalized British subject father; spent time in Africa, New Zealand, Mexico, Germany, Italy
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daughter of Harriett Taylor & Reinhardt Joseph Werner; sister of J. R. Werner
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collaborated with J. R. Werner; Little Folks; Review of Reviews; Temple Bar; Quiver; Free Press (Tonbridge)
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- "Alice Werner." The Magazine of Poetry: A Quarterly Review, Vol. 3, no. 1 (Jan. 1891), p. 31.
- HathiTrust (https://www.hathitrust.org/)
- Who Was Who
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. © Oxford University Press
- Reilly, Catherine. Late Victorian Poetry, 1880-1899: An Annotated Biobibliography. London: Mansell, 1994.
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• wrote A Time and Times: Ballads and Lyrics of East and West The King of the Silver City and Other Poems Myths and Legends of the Bantu • translated Utendi was Ayubu The Advice of Mwana Kupona