Alicia Catherine Mant

Alicia Catherine Mant (15 July 1788 – 26 February 1869) was a 19th-century English writer of children's stories which tended to have strong moralistic underpinnings.

Alicia Catherine Mant
Born15 July 1788
Southampton
Died26 February 1869
Ballymoney
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish
GenreChildren's novels

Life and work

She was born Alicia Catherine Mant to Rev. Richard Mant and Elizabeth Roe Mant on 15 July 1788 in Southampton, Hampshire. Her father was the King Edward's Grammar School headmaster and he was rector of All Saints in Southampton. Mant was last of nine children, one of whom was Richard Mant, later a bishop in Ireland. She wrote a number of novels and produced at least one game before marrying a man fourteen years her junior in 1835. He was Rev James Russell Phillott. Mant died 26 February 1869 in Ballymoney, County Antrim. She and her husband are buried in Ballymoney, where they lived.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Her works are still included in anthologies of stories for children.[7][8]

Bibliography
  • Ellen; or, The Young Godmother (1812)
  • Caroline Lismore; or, The Errors of Fashion (1815)
  • The Canary Bird (1817)
  • Montague Newburgh; or, The Mother and Son (1817)
  • Margaret Melville, and The Soldier's Daughter; or, Juvenile Memoirs (1818)
  • The Cottage in the Chalk Pit (1822)
  • The Young Naturalist (1824)
  • Christmas, a Happy Time (1932)

References
  1. "Visitation of England and Wales : Howard, Joseph Jackson, 1827-1902". Internet Archive. 23 October 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  2. "Mant, Alicia Catherine -1869 [WorldCat Identities]". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  3. Taylor, C. (1817). The Literary Panorama. p. 417. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  4. "Games of Old". Harvard Magazine. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  5. "Alicia Catherine Mant - Bygone Lore". sites.google.com.
  6. "Alicia Catherine Mant (Mant, Alicia Catherine, -1869)". The Online Books Page. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  7. Mark, Jan (1993). The Oxford book of children's stories. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-214228-3. OCLC 28214007.
  8. Hunt, Peter (2001). Children's literature : an anthology, 1801-1902. Oxford, UK Malden, Mass., USA: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-21049-8. OCLC 44128438.
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